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PULPIT AND PRESS 



BY 



MARY BAKER EDDY 

DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

AND AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH 

KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES 



BOSTON, U.S.A. 

Published by Allison V. Stewart 

FOR THE TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER G. EDDY 

Falmouth and St. Paul Streets 

1917 






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Authorized Literature of 

The First Church of Christ, Scientist 

in Boston, Massachusetts 






Copynghty i8qs 
By Mary Baker Eddy 



All rights reserved 



To 

THE DEAR TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED 
CHILDREN 

WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS OF $4,460 WERE DEVOTED 

TO THE mother's ROOM IN THE FIRST CHURCH 

OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, BOSTON, THIS UNIQUE 

BOOK IS TENDERLY DEDICATED BY 

MARY BAKER EDDY 



PREFACE 

THIS volume contains scintillations from press and 
pulpit — utterances which epitomize the story of the 
birth of Christian Science, in 1866, and its progress 
during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of a 
century hence, when the children of to-day are the elders 
of the twentieth century, it will be interesting to have 
not only a record of the incUnation given their own 
thoughts in the latter half of the nineteenth century, 
but also a registry of the rise of the mercury in the glass 
of the world's opinion. 

It will then be instructive to turn backward the tele- 
scope of that advanced age, with its lenses of more 
spiritual mentality, indicating the gain of intellectual 
momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian Science 
as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note 
the impetus thereby given to Christianity ; to con the 
facts surrounding the cradle of this grand verity — that 
the sick are healed and sinners saved, not by matter, but 
by Mind ; and to scan further the features of the vast 
problem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute 
power of Truth and the actual bliss of man's existence 

in Science. 

MARY BAKER EDDY 
February, 1895 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Dedicatory Sermon i 

Christian Science Textbook 12 

Hymns 

Laying the Corner-stone 16 

"^^ Feed My Sheep'' 17 

Christ My Refuge 18 

Note 20 

CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 

Chicago Inter-Ocean 23 

Boston Herald 40 

Boston Sunday Globe 44 

Boston Transcript 50 

Jackson Patriot 52 

Outlook 56 

American Art Journal 57 

Boston Journal 61 

Republic (Washington, D. C.) 63 

New York Tribune 64 



X CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Kansas City Journal 65 

Montreal Herald 67 

Baltimore American 68 

Reporter (Lebanon, Ind.) 70 

New York Commercial Advertiser 71 

Syracuse Post 71 

New York Herald 74 

Toronto Globe 75 

Concord Monitor 76 

People and Patriot 77 

Union Signal 79 

New Century 81 

Christian Science Journal 84 

Concord Monitor 85 



PULPIT AND PEESS 

DEDICATORY SERMON 

By Rev. Mary Baker Eddy 

First Pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass. 
Delivered January 6, 1895 



Text: They shall he abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy 
house; and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures. 
— Psalms xxxvi. 8. 

ANEW year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy 
and promise clad in white raiment, kissed — and 
encumbered with greetings — redolent with grief and 
gratitude. 

An old year is timers adult, and 1893 was a distinguished 
character, notable for good and evil. Time past and time 
present, both, may pain us, but time improved is elo- 
quent in God's praise. For due refreshment garner the 
memory of 1894; for if wiser by reason of its large lessons, 
and records deeply engraven, great is the value thereof. 

Pass on, returnless year! 
The path behind thee is with glory crowned; 
This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground; 

Pass proudly to thy bier! 

To-day, being with you in spirit, what need that I should 
be present in propria persona? Were I present, methinks 

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2 PULPIT AND PRESS 

I should be much like the Queen of Sheba, when she saw 
the house Solomon had erected. In the expressive language 
of Holy Writ, "There was no more spirit in her;'' and 
she said, "Behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom 
and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.'' Both 
without and within, the spirit of beauty dominates The 
Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to the soft shim- 
mer of its starlit dome. 

Nevertheless, there is a thought higher and deeper than 
the edifice. Material light and shade are temporal, not 
eternal. Turning the attention from sublunary views, 
however enchanting, think for a moment with me of the 
house wherewith "they shall be abundantly satisfied," — 
even the "house not made with hands, eternal in the 
heavens." With the mind's ej^e glance at the direful 
scenes of the war between China and Japan. Imagine 
yourselves in a poorly barricaded fort, fiercely besieged 
by the enemy. Would you rush forth single-handed to 
combat the foe? Nay, would you not rather strengthen 
your citadel by every means in your power, and remain 
within the walls for its defense? Likewise should we do 
as metaphysicians and Christian Scientists. The real 
house in w^hich "we live, and move, and have our being '^ 
is Spirit, God, the eternal harmony of infinite Soul. The 
enemy we confront would overthrow this sublime fortress, 
and it behooves us to defend our heritage. 

How can we do this Christianly scientific work? By 
intrenching ourselves in the knowledge that our true 
temple is no human fabrication, but the superstructure 
of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled 



DEDICATORY SERMON 3 

in Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple 
possibly be demolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity 
end? Can Life die? Can Truth be uncertain? Can 
Love be less than boundless? Referring to this temple, 
our Master said: ^^ Destroy this temple, and in three days 
I will raise it up." He also said: "The kingdom of God 
is within you.'^ Know, then, that you possess sovereign 
power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dis- 
possess you of this heritage and trespass on Love. If you 
maintain this position, who or what can cause you to sin 
or suffer? Our surety is in our confidence that we are 
indeed dwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. 
Such a heavenly assurance ends all warfare, and bids tu- 
mult cease, for the good fight we have waged is over, and 
divine Love gives us the true sense of victory. "They 
shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; 
and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy 
pleasures.'' No longer are we of the church militant, but 
of the church triumphant; and with Job of old we ex- 
claim, "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." The river of 
His pleasures is a tributary of divine Love, whose living 
waters have their source in God, and flow into everlasting 
Life. We drink of this river when all human desires are 
quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing to the divine 
Mind. 

Perchance some one of you may say, "The evidence of 
spiritual verity in me is so small that I am afraid. I feel 
so far from victory over the flesh that to reach out for a 
present realization of my hope savors of temerity. Be- 
cause of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus my 



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strength is naught and my faith fails." O thou "weak 
and infirm of purpose/' Jesus said, "Be not afraid"! 

"What if the little rain should say, 
^So small a drop as I 
Can ne^er refresh a drooping earth, 
I'll tarry in the sky.''' 

Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically num- 
ber one, a unit, and therefore whole number, governed 
and protected by his divine Principle, God? You have 
simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity with 
your divine source, and daily demonstrate this. Then you 
will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions 
in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific 
Principle. A dewdrop reflects the sun. Each of Christ's 
little ones reflects the infinite One, and therefore is the 
seer's declaration true, that "one on God's side is a 
majority." 

A single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or 
crown the tree with blossoms. 

Who lives in good, lives also in God, — lives in all Life, 
through all space. His is an individual kingdom, his dia- 
dem a crown of crowns. His existence is deathless, for- 
ever unfolding its eternal Principle. Wait patiently on 
illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life. Reflect this 
Life, and with it cometh the full power of being. " They 
shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy 
house." 

In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in 
Chicago, used, in all its public sessions, my form of prayer 



DEDICATORY SERMON 5 

since 1866; and one of the very clergymen who had pub- 
licly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy/ ^ offered 
his audible adoration in the words I use, besides listening 
to an address on Christian Science from my pen, read by 
Judge S. J. Hanna, in that unique assembly. 

When the light of one friendship after another passes 
from earth to heaven, we kindle in place thereof the glow 
of some deathless reality. Memory, faithful to goodness, 
holds in her secret chambers those characters of holiest 
sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer, soonest to re- 
nounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School of 
Philosophy — the late A. Bronson Alcott. 

After the publication of '' Science and Health with Key 
to the Scriptures," his athletic mind, scholarly and serene, 
was the first to bedew my hope with a drop of humanity. 
^Vhen the press and pulpit cannonaded this book, he 
introduced himself to its author by saying, "I have come 
to comfort you.'^ Then eloquently paraphrasing it, and 
prophesying its prosperity, his conversation with a beauty 
all its own reassured me. That prophecy is fulfilled. 

This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one 
thousand copies. It is in the public libraries of the prin- 
cipal cities, colleges, and universities of America; also 
the same in Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, 
Italy, Greece, Japan, India, and China; in the Oxford 
University and the Victoria Institute, England; in the 
Academy of Greece, and the Vatican at Rome. 

This book is the leaven fermenting religion; it is 
palpably working in the sermons, Sunday Schools, and 
literature of our and other lands. This spiritual chemi- 



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calization is the upheaval produced when Truth is neutral- 
izing error and impurities are passing off. And it will 
continue till the antithesis of Christianity, engendering the 
limited forms of a national or tyrannical religion, yields to 
the church established by the Nazarene Prophet and main- 
tained on the spiritual foundation of Christ's healing. 

Good, the Anglo-Saxon term for God, unites Science to 
Christianity. It presents to the understanding, not matter, 
but Mind; not the deified drug, but the goodness of God — 
healing and saving mankind. 

The author of "Marriage of the Lamb," who made the 
mistake of thinking she caught her notions from my book, 
wrote to me in 1894, "Six months ago your book. Science 
and Health, was put into my hands. I had not read three 
pages before I realized I had found that for which I had 
hungered since girlhood, and was healed instantaneously 
of an ailment of seven years' standing. I cast from me the 
false remedy I had vainly used, and turned to the 'great 
Physician.' I went with my husband, a missionary to 
China, in 1884. He went out under the auspices of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. I feel the truth is leading 
us to return to Japan." 

Another brilliant enunciator, seeker, and servant of 
Truth, the Rev. William R. Alger of Boston, signalled 
me kindly as my lone bark rose and fell and rode the rough 
sea. At a conversazione in Boston, he said, "You may 
find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings more than is 
dreamt of in your philosophy." 

Also that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell 
Phillips, the native course of whose mind never swerved 



DEDICATORY SERMON 7 

from the chariot-paths of justice, speaking of my work, 
said: "Had I young blood in my veins, I would help that 
woman/^ 

I love Boston, and especially the laws of the State where- 
of this city is the capital. To-day, as of yore, her laws 
have befriended progress. 

Yet when I recall the past, — how the gospel of healing 
was simultaneously praised and persecuted in Boston, — 
and remember also that God is just, I wonder whether, 
were our dear Master in our New England metropolis at 
this hour, he would not weep over it, as he wept over 
Jerusalem! O ye tears! Not in vain did ye flow. Those 
sacred drops were but enshrined for future use, and God 
has now unsealed their receptacle with His outstretched 
arm. Those crystal globes made morals for mankind. 
They will rise with joy, and with power to wash away, in 
floods of forgiveness, every crime, even when mistakenly 
committed in the name of religion. 

An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must 
perish, for false prophets in the present as in the past 
stumble onward to their doom; while their tabernacles 
crumble with dry rot. "God is not mocked/^ and "the 
word of the Lord endureth forever.'' 

I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science 
textbook," Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,'' 
as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in 
Boston, — so long as this church is satisfied with this 
pastor. This is my first ordination. "They shall be 
abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and 
Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures." 



8 PULPIT AND PRESS 

All praise to the press of America's Athens, — and 
throughout our land the press has spoken out historically, 
impartially. Like the winds telling tales through the 
leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our church chimes 
repeat my thanks to the press. 

Notwithstanding the perplexed condition of our na- 
tion's finances, the want and woe with millions of dollars 
unemployed in our money centres, the Christian Scientists, 
within fourteen months, responded to the call for this 
church with $191,012. Not a mortgage was given nor a 
loan solicited, and the donors all touchingly told their 
privileged joy at helping to build The Mother Church. 
There was no urging, begging, or borrowing; only the 
need made known, and forth came the money, or dia- 
monds, which served to erect this "miracle in stone." 

Even the children vied with their parents to meet the 
demand. Little hands, never before devoted to menial 
services, shoveled snow, and babes gave kisses to earn a 
few pence toward this consummation. Some of these 
lambs my prayers had christened, but Christ will rechristen 
them with his own new name. "Out of the mouths of 
babes and sucklmgs Thou hast perfected praise." The 
resident youthful workers were called "Busy Bees." 

Sweet society, precious children, your loving hearts and 
deft fingers distilled the nectar and painted the finest 
flowers in the fabric of this history, — even its centre-piece, 
— Mother's Room in The First Church of Christ, Sci- 
entist, in Boston. The children are destined to witness 
results which will eclipse Oriental dreams. They belong 
to the twentieth century. By juvenile aid, into the build- 



DEDICATORY SERMON 9 

ing fund have come $4,460. Ah, children, you are the 
bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of 
our race ! 

Brothers of the Christian Science Board of Directors, 
when your tireless tasks are done — well done — no Del- 
phian lyre could break the full chords of such a rest. May 
the altar you have built never be shattered in our hearts, 
but justice, mercy, and love kindle perpetually its fires. 

It was well that the brother whose appliances warm 
this house, warmed also our perishless hope, and nerved 
its grand fulfilment. Woman, true to her instinct, came 
to the rescue as sunshine from the clouds; so, when man 
quibbled over an architectural exigency, a woman climbed 
with feet and hands to the top of the tower, and helped 
settle the subject. 

After the loss of our late lamented pastor. Rev. D. A. 
Easton, the church services were maintained by excellent 
sermons from the editor of The Christian Science Journal 
(who, with his better half, is a very whole man), together 
with the Sunday School giving this flock "drink from the 
river of His pleasures.'' O glorious hope and blessed as- 
surance, "it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the 
kingdom." Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty 
hidden from the world. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and 
love are treasures untold — constant prayers, prophecies, 
and anointings. Practice, not profession, — goodness, not 
doctrines, — spiritual understanding, not mere belief, 
gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence, and call down 
blessings infinite. "Faith without works is dead." The 
foundation of enlightened faith is Christ's teachings and 



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practice. It was our Master's self-immolation, his life- 
giving love, healing both mind and body, that raised the 
deadened conscience, paralyzed by inactive faith, to a 
quickened sense of mortal's necessities, — and God's 
power and purpose to supply them. It was, in the words 
of the Psalmist, He "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; 
who healeth all thy diseases." 

Rome's fallen fanes and silent Aventine is glory's tomb; 
her pomp and power lie low in dust. Our land, more 
favored, had its Pilgrim Fathers. On shores of solitude, 
at Plymouth Rock, they planted a nation's heart, — the 
rights of conscience, imperishable glory. No dream of 
avarice or ambition broke their exalted purpose, theirs 
was the wish to reign in hope's reality — the realm of 
Love. 

Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard 
on the rock of Christ, the true, the spiritual idea, — the 
chief corner-stone in the house of our God. And our 
Master said: "The stone which the builders rejected, the 
same is become the head of the corner." If you are less 
appreciated to-day than your forefathers, wait — for if 
you are as devout as they, and more scientific, as progress 
certainly demands, your plant is immortal. Let us rejoice 
that chill vicissitudes have not withheld the timely shelter 
of this house, which descended like day-spring from on 
high. 

Divine presence, breathe Thou Thy blessing on every 
heart in this house. Speak out, O soul! This is the new- 
born of Spirit, this is His redeemed; this. His beloved. 
May the kingdom of God within you, — with you alway, — 



DEDICATORY SERMON 11 

reascending, bear you outward, upward, heavenward. 
May the sweet song of silver-throated smgers, making 
melody more real, and the organ's voice, as the sound of 
many waters, and the Word spoken in this sacred temple 
dedicated to the ever-present God — mingle with the joy 
of angels and rehearse your hearts' holy intents. May all 
whose means, energies, and prayers helped erect The 
Mother Church, find within it home, and heaven. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK 

The following selections from "Science and Health 
with Key to the Scriptures," pages 568-571, were read 
from the platform. The impressive stillness of the audi- 
ence indicated close attention. 

Revelation xii. 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in 
heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the king- 
dom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser 
of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our 
God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood 
of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they 
loved not their lives imto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye 
heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters 
of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto 
you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath 
but a short time. 

For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and mag- 
nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty 
conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter than has 
ever before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and 
nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not 
there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting 
strain. Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for 
Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in 
Christian Science. This rule clearly interprets God as 

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK 13 

divine Principle, — as Life, represented by the Father; 
as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented 
by the mother. Every mortal at some period, here or here- 
after, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief 
in a power opposed to God. 

The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few 
things, I will make thee ruler over many,^^ is literally ful- 
filled, when we are conscious of the supremacy of Truth, 
by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know 
that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wicked- 
ness. He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters 
his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof 
of healing, — in a sweet and certain sense that God is 
Love. Alas for those who break faith with divine Science 
and fail to strangle the serpent of sin as well as of sickness! 
They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief. 
They are in the surging sea of error, not struggling to lift 
their heads above the drowning wave. 

What must the end be? They must eventually expiate 
their sin through suffering. The sin, which one has made 
his bosom companion, comes back to him at last with 
accelerated force, for the devil knoweth his time is short. 
Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not 
eternal. The dragon is at last stung to death by his own 
malice; but how many periods of torture it may take to 
remove all sin, must depend upon sin's obduracy. 

Revelation xii. 13. And when the dragon saw that he was 
cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought 
forth the man child. 



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The march of mind and of honest investigation will 
bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of 
some sort, the growing occultism of this period. The 
present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet un- 
seen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another 
extreme mortal mood, — into human indignation; for 
one extreme follows another. 

Revelation xii. 15, 16. And the serpent cast out of his 
mouth water as a flood, after the woman, that he might 
cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth 
helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and 
swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his 
mouth. 

Millions of unprejudiced minds — simple seekers for 
Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert — are wait- 
ing and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup of 
cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the conse- 
quences. What if the old dragon should send forth a new 
flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown 
your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the 
deep waters of chaos and old night. In this age the earth 
will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be understood. 
Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks. 
The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the 
wave. 

When God heals the sick or the sinning, they should 
know the great benefit which Mind has wrought. They 
should also know the great delusion of mortal mind, when 
it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK 15 

the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in 
divine Mind, but they are not so wilHng to point out the 
evil in human thought, and expose evil^s hidden mental 
ways of accomplishing iniquity. 

Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary to 
ensure the avoidance of the evil? Because people like 
you better when you tell them their virtues than when you 
tell them their vices. It requires the spirit of our blessed 
Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human dis- 
pleasure for the sake of doing right and benefiting our 
race. Who is telling mankind of the foe in ambush? Is 
the informer one who sees the foe? If so, listen and be 
wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful 
stewards who have seen the danger and yet have given 
no warning. 

At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil 
with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom 
and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the 
panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The 
cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the 
one divinity. 



HY]MNS 

By Rev. Mart Baker Eddy 
[Set to the Church Chimes and Sung on This Occasion] 

Laying the Corner-stone 

Laus Deo, it is done ! 

Rolled away from loving heart 

Is a stone. 
Joyous, risen, we depart 

Having one. 

Laus Deo, — on this rock 
(Heaven chiselled squarely good) 

Stands His church, — 
God is Love, and understood 

By His flock. 

Laus Deo, night starlit 
Slumbers not in God's embrace; 

Then, Oman! 
Like this stone, be in thy place; 

Stand, not sit. 

Cold, silent, stately stone. 

Dirge and song and shoutings low, 

In thy heart 
Dwell serene, — and sorrow? No^ 

It has none, 

Lau^ Deo! 

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HYMNS 17 



"Feed My Sheep'' 

Shepherd, show me how to go 

O'er the hillside steep, 
How to gather, how to sow, — 

How to feed Thy sheep; 
I will listen for Thy voice. 

Lest my footsteps stray; 
I will follow and rejoice 

All the rugged way. 

Thou wilt bind the stubborn will, 

Wound the callous breast. 
Make self-righteousness be still, 

Break earth's stupid rest. 
Strangers on a barren shore. 

Laboring long and lone — 
We would enter by the door, 

And Thou know'st Thine own. 

So, when day grows dark and cold, 

Tear or triumph harms. 
Lead Thy lambkins to the fold. 

Take them in Thine arms; 
Feed the hungry, heal the heart, 

Till the morning's beam; 
White as wool, ere they depart — 

Shepherd, wash them clean. 



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Christ My Refuge 

O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind 

There sweeps a strain, 
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind 

The power of pain. 

And wake a white-winged angel throng 

Of thoughts, illumed 
By faith, and breathed in raptured song. 

With love perfumed. 

Then his unveiled, sweet mercies show 

Life's burdens light. 
I kiss the cross, and wake to know 

A world more bright. 

And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea 

I see Christ walk. 
And come to me, and tenderly. 

Divinely talk. 

Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock. 

Upon Life's shore; 
'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock. 

Oh, nevermore! 

From tired joy and grief afar, 

And nearer Thee, — 
Father, where Thine own children are, 

I love to be. 



HYMNS 19 

My prayer, some daily good to do 

To Thine, for Thee; 
Some oflFering pure of Love, whereto 

God leadeth me. 



NOTE 
By Rev. Maky Baker Eddy 

The land whereon stands The First Church of Christ, 
Scientist, in Boston, was first purchased by the church 
and society. Owing to a heavy loss, they were unable to 
pay the mortgage ; therefore I paid it, and through trustees 
gave back the land to the church. 

In 1892 I had to recover the land from the trustees, re- 
organize the church, and reobtain its charter — not, how- 
ever, through the State Commissioner, who refused to 
grant it, but by means of a statute of the State, and through 
Directors regive the land to the church. In 1895 I recon- 
structed my original system of ministry and church gov- 
ernment. Thus committed to the providence of God, the 
prosperity of this church is unsurpassed. 

From first to last The Mother Church seemed type and 
shadow of the warfare between the flesh and Spirit, even 
that shadow whose substance is the divine Spirit, im- 
peratively propelling the greatest moral, physical, civil, 
and religious reform ever known on earth. In the words 
of the prophet: "The shadow of a great rock in a weary 
land." 

This church was dedicated on January 6, anciently one 
of the many dates selected and observed in the East as the 
day of the birth and baptism of our master Metaphysician, 
Jesus of Nazareth. 

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NOTE 21 

Christian Scientists, their children and grandchildren 
to the latest generations, inevitably love one another with 
that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love unselfish, 
unambitious, impartial, universal, — that loves only be- 
cause it is Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even 
those that hate them. This we all must do to be Christian 
Scientists in spirit and in truth. I long, and live, to see 
this love demonstrated. I am seeking and praying for it 
to inhabit my own heart and to be made manifest in my 
life. Who will unite with me in this pure purpose, and 
faithfully struggle till it be accomplished? Let this be our 
Christian endeavor society, which Christ organizes and 
blesses. 

While we entertain due respect and fellowship for what 
is good and doing good in all denominations of religion, 
and shun whatever would isolate us from a true sense of 
goodness in others, we cannot serve mammon. 

Christian Scientists are really united to only that which 
is Christlike, but they are not indifferent to the welfare of 
any one. To perpetuate a cold distance between our de- 
nomination and other sects, and close the door on church 
or individuals — however much this is done to us — is 
not Christian Science. Go not into the way of the un- 
christly, but wheresoever you recognize a clear expression 
of God's likeness, there abide in confidence and hope. 

Our unity with churches of other denominations must 
rest on the spirit of Christ calling us together. It cannot 
come from any other source. Popularity, self-aggrandize- 
ment, aught that can darken in any degree our spirituality, 
must be set aside. Only what feeds and fills the sentiment 



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with unworldliness, can give peace and good will tov/ards 
men. 

All Christian churches have one bond of unity, one 
nucleus or point of convergence, one prayer, — the Lord's 
Prayer. It is matter for rejoicing that we unite in love, 
and in this sacred petition with every praying assembly 
on earth, — "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in 
earth, as it is in heaven.'' 

If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity 
to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every 
Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, 
will approximate the understanding of Christian Science 
sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will give 
to Christianity his new name, and Christendom wiU be 
classified as Christian Scientists. 

When the doctrinal barriers between the churches are 
broken, and the bonds of peace are cemented by spiritual 
understanding and Love, there will be unity of spirit, and 
the healing power of Christ will prevail. Then shall Zion 
have put on her most beautiful garments, and her waste 
places budded and blossomed as the rose. 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 

[Daily Inter-Ocean, Chicago, December 31, 1894] 

Mary Baker Eddy 

Completion op The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston 
— "Our Prater in Stone ^' — Description of the Most 
Unique Structure in Any City — A Beautiful Temple 
AND Its Furnishings — Mrs. Eddy^s Work and Her In- 
fluence 

Boston, Mass., December 28. — Special Correspond- 
ence, — The "great awakening" of the time of Jonathan 
Edwards has been paralleled during the last decade by a 
wave of idealism that has swept over the country, mani- 
festing itself mider several different aspects and under 
various names, but each having the common identity of 
spiritual demand. This movement, under the guise of 
Christian Science, and ingenuously calling out a closer 
inquiry into Oriental philosophy, prefigures itself to us 
as one of the most potent factors in the social evolution 
of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. History 
shows the curious fact that the closing years of every cen- 
tury are years of more intense life, manifested in unrest 
or in aspiration, and scholars of special research, like 
Prof. Max MuUer, assert that the end of a cycle, as is the 
latter part of the present century, is marked by pecuUar 
intimations of man's immortal life. 

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24 PULPIT AND PRESS 

The completion of the first Christian Science church 
erected in Boston strikes a keynote of definite attention. 
This church is in the fashionable Back Bay, between 
Commonwealth and Huntington Avenues. It is one of 
the most beautiful, and is certainly the most unique struc- 
ture in any city. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 
as it is oflBcially called, is termed by its Founder, "Our 
prayer in stone." It is located at the intersection of Nor- 
way and Falmouth Streets, on a triangular plot of ground, 
the design a Romanesque tower with a circular front and 
an octagonal form, accented by stone porticos and turreted 
corners. On the front is a marble tablet, with the follow- 
ing inscription carved in bold relief: — 

"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, erected Anno 
Domini 1894. A testimonial to our beloved teacher, 
the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder 
of Christian Science; author of "Science and Health 
with Key to the Scriptures;" president of the Massa- 
chusetts Metaphysical College, and the first pastor of 
this denomination." 

THE CHURCH EDIFICE 

The church is built of Concord granite in light gray, 
with trimmings of the pink granite of New Hampshire, 
Mrs. Eddy's native State. The architecture is Romanesque 
throughout. The tower is one hundred and twenty feet in 
height and twenty-one and one half feet square. The en- 
trances are of marble, with doors of antique oak richly 
carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich in 



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pictorial effect. The lighting and cooling of the church — 
for cooling is a recognized feature as well as heating — 
are done by electricity, and the heat generated by two 
large boilers in the basement is distributed by the four 
systems with motor electric power. The partitions are 
of iron; the floors of marble in mosaic work, and the 
edifice is therefore as literally fire-proof as is conceivable. 
The principal features are the auditorium, seating eleven 
hundred people and capable of holding fifteen hundred; 
the "Mother's Room,'' designed for the exclusive use of 
Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry. The 
girders are all of iron, the roof is of terra cotta tiles, the 
galleries are in plaster relief, the window frames are of 
iron, coated with plaster; the staircases are of iron, with 
marble stairs of rose pink, and marble approaches. 

The vestibule is a fitting entrance to this magnificent 
temple. In the ceiling is a sunburst with a seven-pointed 
star, which illuminates it. From this are the entrances 
leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's Room," and 
the directors' room. 

The auditorimn is seated with pews of curly birch, up- 
holstered in old rose plush. The floor is in white Italian 
mosaic, with frieze of the old rose, and the wainscoting 
repeats the same tints. The base and cap are of pink 
Tennessee marble. On the walls are bracketed oxidized 
silver lamps of Roman design, and there are frequent 
illuminated texts from the Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's 
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" im- 
panelled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes 
the place of chandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass in 



26 PULPIT AND PRESS 

decorative designs, covering one hundred and forty-four 
electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one 
inches from point to point, the centre being of pure white 
light, and each ray under prisms which reflect the rainbow 
tints. The galleries are richly panelled in relief work. 
The organ and choir gallery is spacious and rich beyond 
the power of words to depict. The platform — corre- 
sponding to the chancel of an Episcopal church — is a 
mosaic work, with richly carved seats following the sweep 
of its curve, with a lamp stand of the Renaissance period 
on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidized silver 
lamps, eight feet in height. The great organ comes from 
Detroit. It is one of vast compass, with iEolian attach- 
ment, and cost eleven thousand dollars. It is the gift of 
a single individual — a votive offering of gratitude for the 
healing of the wife of the donor. 

The chime of bells includes fifteen, of fine range and 
perfect tone. 

THE "mother's room" 

The "Mother's Room" is approached by an entrance of 
Italian marble, and over the door, in large golden letters on 
a marble tablet, is the word "Love." In this room the 
mosaic marble floor of white has a Romanesque border and 
is decorated with sprays of fig leaves bearing fruit. The 
room is toned in pale green with relief in old rose. The 
mantel is of onyx and gold. Before the great bay window 
hangs an Athenian lamp over two hundred years old, 
which will be kept always burning day and night. Lead- 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 27 

ing off the "Mother's Room" are toilet apartments, with 
full-length French mirrors and every convenience. 

The directors' room is very beautiful in marble ap- 
proaches and rich carving, and off this is a vault for the 
safe preservation of papers. 

The vestry seats eight hundred people, and opening from 
it are three large class-rooms and the pastor's study. 

The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. 
There are no "memorial" windows; the entire church is a 
testimonial, not a memorial — a point that the members 
strongly insist upon. 

In the auditorium are two rose windows — one repre- 
senting the heavenly city w^hich "cometh down from God 
out of heaven," with six small windows beneath, emblem- 
atic of the six water-pots referred to in John ii. 6. The 
other rose window represents the raising of the daughter 
of Jairus. Beneath are two small windows bearing palms 
of victory, and others with lamps, typical of Science and 
Health. 

Another great window tells its pictorial story of the four 
Marys — the mother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of 
Jesus, Mary washing the feet of Jesus, Mary at the resur- 
rection; and the woman spoken of in the Apocalypse, 
chapter 12, God-crowned. 

One more window in the auditorium represents the 
raising of Lazarus. 

In the gallery are windows representing John on the 
Isle of Patmos, and others of pictorial significance. In 
the " Mother's Room " the windows are of still more unique 
bterest. A large bay window, composed of three separate 



28 PULPIT AND PRESS 

panels, is designed to be wholly typical of the work of Mrs. 
Eddy. The central panel represents her in solitude and 
meditation, searching the Scriptures by the light of a single 
candle, while the star of Bethlehem shines down from above. 
Above this is a panel containing the Christian Science seal, 
and other panels are decorated with emblematic designs, 
with the legends, "Heal the Sick,'^ "Raise the Dead," 
"Cleanse the Lepers,'^ and "Cast out Demons." 

The cross and the crown and the star are presented in 
appropriate decorative effect. The cost of this church is 
two hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars, exclusive 
of the land — a gift from Mrs. Eddy — which is valued 
at some forty thousand dollars. 

THE ORDER OF SERVICE 

The order of service in the Christian Science Church 
does not differ widely from that of any other sect, save that 
its service includes the use of Mrs. Eddy's book, entitled 
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in per- 
haps equal measure to its use of the Bible. The reading 
is from the two alternately; the singing is from a compila- 
tion called the "Christian Science Hymnal," but its songs 
are for the most part those devotional hymns from Herbert, 
Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Browning, and other recog- 
nized devotional poets, with selections from Whittier and 
Lowell, as are found in the hymn-books of the Unitarian 
churches. For the past year or two Judge Hanna, for- 
merly of Chicago, has filled the office of pastor to the 
church in this city, which held its meetings in Chickering 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 29 

Hall, and later in Copley Hall, in the new Grundmann 
Studio Building on Copley Square. Preceding Judge 
Hanna were Rev. D. A. Easton and Rev. L. P. Norcross, 
both of whom had formerly been Congregational clergy- 
men. The organizer and first pastor of the church here 
was Mrs. Eddy herself, of whose work I shall venture to 
speak, a little later, in this article. 

Last Simday I gave myself the pleasure of attending the 
service held in Copley Hall. The spacious apartment was 
thronged with a congregation whose remarkable earnest- 
ness impressed the observer. There was no straggling 
of late-comers. Before the appointed hour every seat in the 
hall was filled and a large number of chairs pressed into 
service for the overflowing throng. The music was spirited, 
and the selections from the Bible and from Science and 
Health were finely read by Judge Hanna. Then came his 
sermon, which dealt directly with the command of Christ 
to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast 
out demons.^' In his admirable discourse Judge Hanna 
said that while all these injunctions could, under certain 
conditions, be interpreted and fulfilled literally, the 
special lesson was to be taken spiritually — to cleanse the 
leprosy of sin, to cast out the demons of evil thought. 
The discourse was able, and helpful in its suggestive 
interpretation. 

THE CHURCH MEMBERS 

Later I was told that almost the entire congregation was 
composed of persons who had either been themselves, or 



30 PULPIT AND PRESS 

had seen members of their own families, healed by Chris- 
tian Science treatment; and I was further told that once 
when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with Judge Hanna 
for enticing a separate congregation rather than offering 
their strength to unite with churches already established — 
I was told he replied that the Christian Science Church did 
not recruit itself from other churches, but from the grave- 
yards! The church numbers now four thousand members; 
but this estimate, as I understand, is not limited to the 
Boston adherents, but includes those all over the country. 
The ceremonial of uniting is to sign a brief " confession of 
faith," written by Mrs. Eddy, and to unite in communion, 
which is not celebrated by outward symbols of bread and 
wine, but by uniting in silent prayer. 

The ^^ confession of faith" includes the declaration that 
the Scriptures are the guide to eternal Life; that there is a 
Supreme Being, and His Son, and the Holy Ghost, and 
that man is made in His image. It affirms the atonement; 
it recognizes Jesus as the teacher and guide to salvation; 
the forgiveness of sin by God, and affirms the power of 
Truth over error, and the need of living faith at the 
moment to realize the possibilities of the divine Life. 
The entire membership of Christian Scientists throughout 
the world now exceeds two hundred thousand people. The 
church in Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the 
first meeting held on April 19, 1879. It opened with 
twenty-six members, and within fifteen years it has grown 
to its present impressive proportions, and has now its own 
magnificent church building, costing over two hundred 
thousand dollars, and entirely paid for when its consecra^ 



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tion service on January 6 shall be celebrated. This is 
certainly a very remarkable retrospect. 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of this denomina- 
tion and Discoverer of Christian Science, as they term her 
work in affirming the present application of the principles 
asserted by Jesus, is a most interesting personality. At 
the risk of colloquialism, I am tempted to "begin at the 
beginning^' of my own knowledge of Mrs. Eddy, and take, 
as the point of departure, my first meeting with her and 
the subsequent development of some degree of familiarity 
with the work of her life which that meeting inaugurated 
for me. 



MRS. EDDY 

It was during some year in the early ^80^s that I became 
aware — from that close contact with public feeling result- 
ing from editorial work in daily journalism — that the 
Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled and pervaded by a 
new and increasing interest in the dominance of mhid over 
matter, and that the central figure in all this agitation was 
Mrs. Eddy. To a note which I wrote her, begging the 
favor of an interview for press use, she most kindly replied, 
naming an evening on which she would receive me. At 
the hour named I rang the bell at a spacious house on 
Columbus Avenue, and I was hardly more than seated be- 
fore Mrs. Eddy entered the room. She impressed me as 
singularly graceful and winning in bearing and manner, 
and with great claim to personal beauty. Her figure was 
tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a Del- 



32 PULPIT AND PRESS 

sarte disciple; her face, framed in dark hair and lighted 
by luminous blue eyes, had the transparency and rose-flush 
of tint so often seen in New England, and she was magnetic, 
earnest, impassioned. No photographs can do the least 
justice to Mrs. Eddy, as her beautiful complexion and 
changeful expression cannot thus be reproduced. At once 
one would perceive that she had the temperament to domi- 
nate, to lead, to control, not by any crude self-assertion, but 
a spiritual animus. Of course such a personality, with the 
wonderful tumult in the air that her large and enthusiastic 
following excited, fascinated the imagination. What had 
she originated? I mentally questioned this modern St. 
Catherine, who was dominating her followers like any ab- 
bess of old. She told me the story of her life, so far as out- 
ward events may translate those inner experiences which 
alone are significant. 

Mary Baker was the daughter of Mark and Abigail 
(Ambrose) Baker, and was born in Concord, N. H., some- 
where in the early decade of 1820-'30. At the time I met 
her she must have been some sixty years of age, yet she had 
the coloring and the elastic bearing of a woman of thirty, 
and this, she told me, was due to the principles of Chris- 
tian Science. On her father^s side Mrs. Eddy came from 
Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah More was a 
relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her mater- 
nal grandfather, was known as a "godly man," and her 
mother was a religious enthusiast, a saintly and consecrated 
character. One of her brothers, Albert Baker, graduated 
at Dartmouth and achieved eminence as a lawyer. 



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MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD 

As a child Mary Baker saw visions and dreamed dreams. 
When eight years of age she began, like Jeanne d^Arc, to 
hear " voices/' and for a year she heard her name called 
distinctly, and would often run to her mother questioning 
if she were wanted. One night the mother related to her 
the story of Samuel, and bade her, if she heard the voice 
again to reply as he did: "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant 
heareth/' The call came, but the little maid was afraid 
and did not reply. This caused her tears of remorse and 
she prayed for forgiveness, and promised to reply if the call 
came again. It came, and she answered as her mother had 
bidden her, and after that it ceased. 

These experiences, of which Catholic biographies are 
full, and which history not infrequently emphasizes, cer- 
tainly oflFer food for meditation. Theodore Parker related 
that when he was a lad, at work in a field one day on his 
father's farm at Lexington, an old man with a snowy beard 
suddenly appeared at his side, and walked with him as he 
worked, giving him high counsel and serious thought. All 
inquiry in the neighborhood as to whence the stranger 
came or whither he went was fruitless; no one else had 
seen him, and Mr. Parker always believed, so a friend has 
told me, that his visitor was a spiritual form from another 
world. It is certainly true that many and many persons, 
whose life has been destined to more than ordinary achieve- 
ment, have had experiences of voices or visions in their 
early youth. 



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At an early age Miss Baker was married to Colonel 
Glover, of Charleston, S. C, who lived only a year. She 
returned to her father's home — in 1844 — and from that 
time until 1866 no special record is to be made. 

In 1866, while living in Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Eddy (then 
Mrs. Glover) met with a severe accident, and her case 
was pronounced hopeless by the physicians. There came 
a Sunday morning when her pastor came to bid her good- 
by before proceeding to his morning service, as there was 
no probability that she would be alive at its close. During 
this time she suddenly became aware of a divine illumina- 
tion and ministration. She requested those with her to 
withdraw, and reluctantly they did so, believing her de- 
lirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, she walked 
into the adjoining room, "and they thought I had died, 
and that it was my apparition,'' she said. 

THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING 

From that hour dated her conviction of the Principle of 
divine healing, and that it is as true to-day as it was in the 
days when Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth. "I felt 
that the divine Spirit had wrought a miracle," she said, in 
reference to this experience. "How, I could not tell, but 
later I found it to be in perfect scientific accord with the 
divine law." From 1866-69 Mrs. Eddy withdrew from the 
world to meditate, to pray, to search the Scriptures. 

"During this time," she said, in reply to my questions, 
"the Bible was my only textbook. It answered my ques- 
tions as to the process by which I was restored to health; 



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it came to me with a new meaning, and suddenly I appre- 
hended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus and 
the Principle and the law involved in spiritual Science 
and metaphysical healing — in a word — Christian 
Science/^ 

Mrs. Eddy came to perceive that Christ^s healing was not 
miraculous, but was simply a natural fulfilment of divine 
law — a law as operative in the world to-day as it was 
nineteen hundred years ago. "Divine Science is begotten 
of spirituality,^^ she says, "since only the ^pure in heart' 
can see God/' 

In writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy has said: — 

"I had learned that thought must be spiritualized in 
order to apprehend Spirit. It must become honest, un- 
selfish, and pure, in order to have the least understanding 
of God in divine Science. The first must become last. 
Our reliance upon material things must be transferred to 
a perception of and dependence on spiritual things. For 
Spirit to be supreme in demonstration, it must be supreme 
in our affections, and we must be clad with divine power. 
I had learned that Mind reconstructed the body, and that 
nothing else could. All Science is a revelation." 

Through homoeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became con- 
vinced of the Principle of Mind-healing, discovering that 
the more attenuated the drug, the more potent was its 
effects. 

In 1877 Mrs. Glover married Dr. Asa Gilbert Eddy, of 
Londonderry, Vermont, a physician who had come into 
sympathy with her own views, and who was the first to 
place "Christian Scientist" on the sign at his door. Dr. 



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Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the Meta- 
physical College in Boston, in which he taught. 

The work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years, 
and it was closed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its pros- 
perity, as Mrs. Eddy felt it essential to the deeper founda- 
tion of her religious work to retire from active contact with 
the Vv^orld. To this College came hundreds and hundreds 
of students, from Europe as well as this country. I was 
present at the class lectures now and then, by Mrs. Eddy's 
kind invitation, and such earnestness of attention as was 
given to her morning talks by the men and women present 
I never saw equalled. 

MRS. eddy's personality 

On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hos- 
pitable courtesy, I went to her peculiarly fatigued. I came 
away in a state of exhilaration and energy that made me 
feel I could have walked any conceivable distance. I have 
met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with 
this experience repeated. 

Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus 
to Commonwealth Avenue, where, just beyond Massa- 
chusetts Avenue, at the entrance to the Back Bay Park, 
she bought one of the most beautiful residences in Boston. 
The interior is one of the utmost taste and luxury, and the 
house is now occupied by Judge and Mrs. Hanna, who are 
the editors of The Christian Science Journal, a monthly 
publication, and to whose courtesy I am much indebted 
for some of the data of this paper. "It is a pleasure to 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 37 

give any information for The Inter-Ocean,^^ remarked 
Mrs. Hanna, "for it is the great daily that is so fair and so 
just in its attitude toward all questions." 

The increasing demands of the public on Mrs. Eddy 
have been^ it may be, one factor in her removal to Concord, 
N. H., where she has a beautiful residence, called Pleasant 
View. Her health is excellent, and although her hair is 
white, she retains in a great degree her energy and power; 
she takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She 
personally attends to a vast correspondence; superin- 
tends the church in Boston, and is engaged on further 
writings on Christian Science. In every sense she is the 
recognized head of the Christian Science Church. At the 
same time it is her most earnest aim to eliminate the ele- 
ment of personality from the faith. ''On this point, Mrs. 
Eddy feels very strongly," said a gentleman to me on 
Christmas eve, as I sat in the beautiful drawing-room, 
where Judge and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Elsie Lincoln, the 
soprano for the choir of the new church, and one or two 
other friends were gathered. 

"Mother feels very strongly," he continued, "the danger 
and the misfortune of a church depending on any one 
personality. It is difficult not to centre too closely around 
a highly gifted personality." 

THE FIRST ASSOCIATION 

The first Christian Scientist Association was organized 
on July 4, 1876, by seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy. 
In April, 1879, the church was founded with twenty-six 



38 PULPIT AND PRESS 

members, and its charter obtained the following June. 
Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years 
before being ordained in this church, which ceremony 
took place in 1881. 

The first edition of Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and 
Health, was issued in 1875. During these succeeding 
twenty years it has been greatly revised and enlarged, and 
it is now in its ninety-first edition. It consists of fourteen 
chapters, whose titles are as follows: "Science, Theology, 
Medicine,^' " Physiology, '^ "Footsteps of Truth,'^ "Crea- 
tion," "Science of Being," "Christian Science and Spirit- 
ualism," "Alarriage," "Animal Magnetism," "Some 
Objections Answered," "Prayer," "Atonement and Eu- 
charist," "Christian Science Practice," "Teaching Chris- 
tian Science," "Recapitulation." Key to the Scriptures, 
Genesis, Apocalypse, and Glossary. 

The Christian Scientists do not accept the belief we caU 
spiritualism. They believe those who have passed the 
change of death are in so entirely different a plane of con- 
sciousness that between the embodied and disembodied 
there is no possibility of communication. 

They are diametrically opposed to the philosophy of 
Karma and of reincarnation, which are the tenets of U 
theosophy. They hold with strict fidelity to what they 
believe to be the literal teachings of Christ. 

Yet each and all these movements, however they may 
differ among themselves, are phases of idealism and mani- 
festations of a higher spirituality seeking expression. 

It is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those 
who find in one form of belief or another their best aid 




CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 39 

and guidance, and that all meet on common ground in the 

great essentials of love to God and love to man as a signal 

proof of the divine origin of humanity which finds no rest 

until it finds the peace of the Lord in spirituality. They 

all teach that one great truth, that 

Grod's greatness flows around our incompleteness, 
Round our restlessness, His rest. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 



I add on the following page a little poem that I con- 
sider superbly sweet — from my friend, Miss Whiting, 
the talented author of "The World Beautiful." — M. B. 
Eddy. 

At the Window 

[Written for the Traveller] 

The sunset, burning low. 

Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light. 
Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow 

Of waves of light. 

The splendor of the sky 

Repeats its glory in the river's flow; 
And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower. 

Gaze on the world below. 

Dimly, as in a dream, 

I see the hurrying throng before me pass, 
But 'mid them all I only see one face. 

Under the meadow grass. 



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Ah, love! I only know 

How thoughts of you forever cling to me: 
I wonder how the seasons come and go 
Beyond the sapphire sea? 

Lilian Whiting. 
April 15, 1888. 



[Boston Herald, January 7, 1895] 
[Extract] 

A Temple Given to God — Dedication of The 
Mother Church of Christian Science 

Novel Method of Enabling Six Thousand Believers to 
Attend the Exercises — The Service Repeated Four 
Times — Sermon by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Founder op 
the Denomination — Beautiful Room Which the Children 
Built 

With simple ceremonies, four times repeated, in the 
presence of four different congregations, aggregating 
nearly six thousand persons, the unique and costly edifice 
erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets as a 
home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a 
testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian 
Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was yesterday dedicated 
to the worship of God. 



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The structure came forth from the hands of the artisans 
with every stone paid for — with an appeal, not for more 
money, but for a cessation of the tide of contributions 
which continued to flow in after the full amount needed 
was received. From every State in the Union, and from 
many lands, the love-offerings of the disciples of Christian 
Science came to help erect this beautiful structure, and 
more than four thousand of these contributors came to 
Boston, from the far-off Pacific coast and the Gulf States 
and all the territory that lies between, to view the new- 
built temple and to listen to the Message sent them by 
the teacher they revere. 

From all New England the members of the denomina- 
tion gathered; New York sent its hundreds, and even 
from the distant States came parties of forty and fifty. 
The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding from 
fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly 
incapable of receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of 
nearly a thousand local believers. Hence the service was 
repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and 
each of the four vast congregations filled the church to 
repletion. 

At 7:30 a. m. the chimes in the great stone tower, which 
rises one hundred and twenty-six feet above the earth, 
rung out their message of "On earth peace, good will 
toward men.'' 

Old familiar hymns — "All hail the power of Jesus' 
name," and others such — were chimed until the hour for 
the dedication service had come. 

At 9 a. m. the first congregation gathered. Before this 



42 PULPIT AND PRESS 

service had closed the large vestry room and the spacious 
lobbies and the sidewalks around the church were all 
filled with awaiting multitude. At 10:30 o'clock another 
service began, and at noon still another. Then there was 
an intermission, and at 3 p. m. the service was repeated 
for the last time. 

There was scarcely even a minor variation in the exer- 
cises at any one of these services. At 10:30 a. m., how- 
ever, the scene was rendered particularly interesting by 
the presence of several hundred children in the central 
pews. These were the little contributors to the building 
fund, whose money was devoted to the ^^ Mother's Room,'' 
a superb apartment intended for the sole use of Mrs. Eddy. 
These children are known in the church as the "Busy 
Bees," and each of them wore a white satin badge with a 
golden beehive stamped upon it, and beneath the beehive 
the words, "Mother's Room," in gilt letters. 

The pulpit end of the auditorium was rich with the 
adornment of flowers. On the wall of the choir gallery 
above the platform, where the organ is to be hereafter 
placed, a huge seven-pointed star was hung — a star of 
lilies resting on palms, with a centre of white immortelles, 
upon which in letters of red were the words: "Love- 
Children's Offering — 1894." 

In the choir and the steps of the platform were potted 
palms and ferns and Easter lilies. The desk was wreathed 
with ferns and pure white roses fastened with a broad 
ribbon bow. On its right was a large basket of white 
carnations resting on a mat of palms, and on its left a vase 
filled with beautiful pink roses. 



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Two combined choirs — that of First Church of Christ, 
Scientist, of New York, and the choir of the home church, 
numbering thirty-five singers in all — led the singing, 
under the direction, respectively, of Mr. Henry Lincoln 
Case and Miss Elsie Lincoln. 

Judge S. J. Hanna, editor of The Christian Science 
Journal, presided over the exercises. On the platform 
with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong, 
Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson, who compose 
the Board of Directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, 
a distinguished elocutionist, and a native of Concord, New 
Hampshire. 

The utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an 
organ voluntary, the hymn, ^'Laus Deo, it is done!'^ 
written by Mrs. Eddy for the corner-stone laying last 
spring, was sung by the congregation. Selections from the 
Scriptures and from ^^ Science and Health with Key to the 
Scriptures,'^ were read by Judge Hanna and Dr. Eddy. 

A few minutes of silent prayer came next, followed by 
the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, with its spiritual inter- 
pretation as given in the Christian Science textbook. 

The sermon prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Eddy, 
which was looked forward to as the chief feature of the 
dedication, was then read by Mrs. Bemis. Mrs. Eddy 
remained at her home in Concord, N. H., during the day, 
because, as heretofore stated in The Herald, it is her 
custom to discourage among her followers that sort of 
personal worship which religious teachers so often receive. 

Before presenting the sermon, Mrs. Bemis read the fol- 
lowing letter from a former pastor of the church: — 



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"To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 

^'Dear Teacher^ Leader, Guide: — ^ Lans Deo, it Is doneT 
x4t last you begin to see the fruition of that you have worked, 
toiled, prayed for. The 'prayer in stone' is accompKshed. 
Across two thousand miles of space, as mortal sense puts 
it, I send my hearty congratulations. You are fully occu- 
pied, but I thought you would willingly pause for an 
instant to receive this brief message of congratulation. 
Surely it marks an era in the blessed onward work of 
Christian Science. It is a most auspicious hour in your 
eventful career. ^Miile we all rejoice, yet the mother in 
Israel, alone of us all, comprehends its fuU significance. 

'' Yours lovuigly, 

"K^'SOX P. XORCROSS." 



[Boston Sunday Globe, January' 6, 1895] 
[Extract] 

Stately Home for Belie^trs ix Gospel Healixg — 
A Wo:^Lix OF Wealth Who Devotes All to Her 

Chltich Work 

Christian Science has shown its power over its students, 
as they are called, by building a church by voluntary con- 
tributions, the first of its kind; a church which will be 
dedicated to-day with a quarter of a million dollars ex- 
pended and free of debt. 

The money has flowed in from all parts of the United 
States and Canada without any special appeal, and it kept 
coming until the custodian of funds cried '' enough ^^ and 
refused to accept any further checks by mail or othens'ise. 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 45 

Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some 
giving a mite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were 
made in many an instance which will never be known in 
this world. 

Christian Scientists not only say that they can effect 
cures of disease and erect churches, but add that they can 
get their buildings finished on time, even when the feat 
seems impossible to mortal senses. Read the following, 
from a publication of the new denomination: — 

"One of the grandest and most helpful features of this 
glorious consummation is this: that one month before the 
close of the year every evidence of material sense declared 
that the church's completion within the year 1894 tran- 
scended human possibility. The predictions of workman 
and onlooker alike were that it could not be completed 
before April or May of 1895. Much was the ridicule 
heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who declared and 
repeatedly asseverated to the contrary. This is indeed, 
then, a scientific demonstration. It has proved, in most 
striking manner, the oft-repeated declarations of our 
textbooks, that the evidence of the mortal senses is 
unreliable.'' 

A week ago Judge Hanna withdrew from the pastorate 
of the church, saying he gladly laid down his responsibili- 
ties to be succeeded by the grandest of ministers — the 
Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
tures." This action, it appears, was the result of rules 
made by Mrs. Eddy. The sermons hereafter will consist 
of passages read from the two books by Readers, who will 
be elected each year by the congregation. 



46 PULPIT AND PRESS 

A story has been abroad that Judge Hanna was so elo- 
quent and magnetic that he was attracting Hsteners who 
came to hear him preach, rather than in search of the 
truth as taught. Consequently the new rules were formu- 
lated. But at Christian Science headquarters this is denied ; 
, Mrs. Eddy says the words of the judge speak to the point, 
and that no such inference is to be drawn therefrom. 

In Mrs. Eddy's personal remmiscences, which are pub- 
Kshed under the title of " Retrospection and Introspection/^ 
much is told of herself in detail that can only be touched 
upon in this brief sketch. 

Aristocratic to the backbone, Mrs. Eddy takes delight 
in going back to the ancestral tree and in tracing those 
branches which are identified with good and great names 
both in Scotland and England. 

Her family came to this country not long before the 
Revolution. Among the many souvenirs that Mrs. Eddy 
remembers as belonging to her grandparents was a heavy 
sword, encased in a brass scabbard, upon which had been 
inscribed the name of the kinsman upon whom the sword 
had been bestowed by Sir William Wallace of mighty 
Scottish fame. 

Mrs. Eddy applied herself, like other girls, to her studies, 
though perhaps with an unusual zest, delighting in philos- 
ophy, logic, and moral science, as well as looking into the 
ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. 

Her last marriage was in the spring of 1877, when, at 
Lynn, Mass., she became the wife of Asa Gilbert Eddy. 
He was the first organizer of a Christian Science Sunday 
School, of which he was the superintendent, and later he 



II 



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attracted the attention of many clergymen of other de- 
nominations by his able lectm^es upon Scriptural topics. 
He died in 1882. 

Mrs. Eddy is known to her circle of pupils and admirers 
as the editor and publisher of the first oflBcial organ of this 
sect. It was called the Journal of Christian Science, and 
has had great circulation with the members of this fast- 
increasing faith. 

In recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Chris- 
tian Science, she states that she sought knowledge concern- 
ing the physical side in this research through the different 
schools of allopathy, homoeopathy, and so forth, without 
receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modern 
philosophy gave her any distinct statement of the Science 
of Mind-healing. She claims that no human reason has 
been equal to the question. And she also defines care- 
fully the difference in the theories between faith-cure and 
Christian Science, dwelling particularly upon the terms 
belief and understanding, which are the key words respec- 
tively used in the definitions of these two healing arts. 

Besides her Boston home, Mrs. Eddy has a delightful 
country home one mile from the State House of New 
Hampshire's quiet capital, an easy driving distance for 
her when she wishes to catch a glimpse of the world. But 
for the most part she lives very much retired, driving rather 
into the country, which is so picturesque all about Con- 
cord and its surrounding villages. 

The big house, so delightfully remodelled and modern- 
ized from a primitive homestead that nothing is left ex- 
cepting the angles and pitch of the roof, is remarkably 



48 PULPIT AND PRESS 

well placed upon a terrace that slopes behind the build- 
ings, while they themselves are in the midst of green 
stretches of lawns, dotted with beds of flowering shrubs, 
with here and there a fountain or summer-house. 

Mrs. Eddy took the writer straight to her beloved "look- 
out^' — a broad piazza on the south side of the second 
story of the house, where she can sit in her swinging chair, 
revelling in the lights and shades of spring and summer 
greenness. Or, as just then, in the gorgeous October 
coloring of the whole landscape that lies below, across the 
farm, which stretches on through an intervale of beautiful 
meadows and pastures to the woods that skirt the valley 
of the little truant river, as it wanders eastward. 

It pleased her to point out her own birthplace. Straight 
as the crow flies, from her piazza, does it lie on the brow 
of Bow hill, and then she paused and reminded the reporter 
that Congressman Baker from New Hampshire, her cousin, 
was born and bred in that same neighborhood. The 
photograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished 
relative, adorned the mantel. 

Then my eye caught her family coat of arms and the 
diploma given her by the Society of the Daughters of the 
Revolution. 

The natural and lawful pride that comes w^ith a tincture 
of blue and brave blood, is perhaps one of her characteris- 
tics, as is many another well-born woman^s. She had a 
long list of worthy ancestors in Colonial and Revolutionary 
days, and the McNeils and General Knox figure largely in 
her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starred 
Paugus. 



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This big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls her den — 
or sometimes "Mother's room/' when speaking of her 
many followers who consider her their spiritual Leader — 
has the air of hospitality that marks its hostess herself. 
Mrs. Eddy has hung its walls with reproductions of some 
of Europe's masterpieces, a few of which had been the 
gifts of her loving pupils. 

Looking down from the windows upon the tree-tops 
on the lower terrace, the reporter exclaimed: "You have 
lived here only four years, and yet from a barren waste 
of most unpromising ground has come forth all this 
beauty!" 

"Four years!" she ejaculated; "two and a half, only 
two and a half years." Then, touching my sleeve and 
pointing, she continued: "Look at those big elms! I had 
them brought here in warm weather, almost as big as they 
are now, and not one died." 

Mrs. Eddy talked earnestly of her friendships. . . . 
She told something of her domestic arrangements, of how 
she had long wished to get away from her busy career in 
Boston, and return to her native granite hills, there to 
build a substantial home that should do honor to that 
precinct of Concord. 

She chose the stubbly old farm on the road from Con- 
cord, within one mile of the "Eton of America," St. Paul's 
School. Once bought, the will of the woman set at work, 
and to-day a strikingly well-kept estate is the first impres- 
sion given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View. 

She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and 
farm in perfect order, and it was pleasing to learn that this 



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rich woman is using her money to promote the welfare of 
industrious workmen, in whom she takes a vital interest. 
Mrs. Eddy believes that "the laborer is worthy of his 
hire/' and, moreover, that he deserves to have a home and 
family of his own. Indeed, one of her motives in buying 
so large an estate was that she might do something for the 
toilers, and thus add her influence toward the advancement 
of better home life and citizenship. 



[Boston Transcript, December 31, 1894] 
[Extract] 

The growth of Christian Science is properly marked by 
the erection of a visible house of worship in this city, which 
will be dedicated to-morrow. It has cost two hundred 
thousand dollars, and no additional sums outside of the 
subscriptions are asked for. This particular phase of 
religious belief has impressed itself upon a large and in- 
creasing number of Christian people, who have been 
tempted to examine its principles, and doubtless have been 
comforted and strengthened by them. Any new move- 
ment will awaken some sort of interest. There are many 
who have worn off the novelty and are thoroughly carried 
away with the requirements, simple and direct as they are, 
of Christian Science. The opposition against it from the 
so-called orthodox religious bodies keeps up a while, but 
after a little skirmishing, finally subsides. No one religious 
body holds the whole of truth, and whatever is likely to 
show even some one side of it will gain followers and live 
down any attempted repression. 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 51 

Christian Science does not strike all as a system of truth. 
If it did, it would be a prodigy. Neither does the Christian 
faith produce the same impressions upon all. Freedom to 
believe or to dissent is a great privilege in these days. So 
when a number of conscientious followers apply themselves 
to a matter like Christian Science, they are enjoying that 
liberty which is their inherent right as human beings, and 
though they cannot escape censure, yet they are to be 
numbered among the many pioneers who are searching 
after religious truth. There is really nothing settled. 
Every truth is more or less in a state of agitation. The 
many who have worked in the mine of knowledge are glad 
to welcome others who have different methods, and with 
them bring different ideas. 

It is too early to predict where this movement will go, 
and how greatly it will affect the well-established methods. 
That it has produced a sensation in religious circles, and 
called forth the implements of theological warfare, is very 
well known. ViTiile it has done this, it may, on the other 
hand, have brought a benefit. Ere this many a new project 
in religious belief has stirred up feeling, but as time has 
gone on, compromises have been welcomed. 

The erection of this temple will doubtless help on the 
growth of its principles. Pilgrims from everywhere will go 
there in search of truth, and some may be satisfied and some 
will not. Christian Science cannot absorb the world's 
thought. It may get the share of attention it deserves, but 
it can only aspire to take its place alongside other great 
demonstrations of religious belief which have done some- 
thing good for the sake of humanity. 



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Wonders will never cease. Here is a church whose 
treasurer has to send out word that no sums except those 
already subscribed can be received! The Christian 
Scientists have a faith of the mustard-seed variety. 
What a pity some of our practical Christian folk have not a 
faith approximate to that of these "impracticar' Christian 
Scientists. 



[Jackson Patriot^ Jackson, Mich., January 20, 1895] 
pExtract] 

Christlajn" Science 

The erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian 
Scientists, at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars, 
love-offerings of the disciples of Mary Baker Eddy, reviver 
of the ancient faith and author of the textbook from which, 
with the New Testament at the foundation, believers 
receive light, health, and strength, is evidence of the rapid 
growth of the new movement. We call it new. It is not. 
The name Christian Science alone is new. At the begin- 
ning of Christianity it was taught and practised by Jesus 
and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But 
the wave of materialism and bigotry that swept over the 
world for fifteen centuries, covering it with the blackness 
of the Dark Ages, nearly obliterated all vital belief in his 
teachings. The Bible was a sealed book. Recently a 
revived belief in what he taught is manifest, and Christian 
Science is one result. No new doctrine is proclaimed, but 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 53 

there is the fresh development of a Principle that was put 
into practice by the Founder of Christianity nineteen hun- 
dred years ago, though practised in other countries at an 
earlier date. ^^The thing that hath been, it is that which 
shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be 
done: and there is no new thing under the sun/^ 

The condition which Jesus of Nazareth, on various 
occasions during the three years of his ministry on earth, 
declared to be essential, in the mind of both healer and 
patient, is contained in the one word — faith. Can drugs 
suddenly cure leprosy? TMien the ten lepers were cleansed 
and one returned to give thanks in Oriental phrase, Jesus 
said to him : ^' Arise, go thy way : thy faith hath made thee 
whole/^ That was Christian Science. In his ^'Law of 
Psychic Phenomena'^ Hudson says: ^^That word, more 
than any other, expresses the whole law of human felicity 
and power in this world, and of salvation in the world to 
come. It is that attribute of mind which elevates man 
above the level of the brute, and gives dominion over the 
physical world. It is the essential element of success in 
every field of human endeavor. It constitutes the power 
of the human soul. AMien Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed 
its potency from the hilltops of Palestine, he gave to man- 
kind the key to health and heaven, and earned the title 
of Saviour of the World.'' \Miittier, grandest of mystic 
poets, saw the truth: — 



That healing gift he lends to them 

Who use it in his name; 
The power that filled his garment's hem 

Is evermore the same. 



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Again, In a poem entitled "The Master/^ he wrote: — 

The healing of his seamless dress 

Is by our beds of pain; 
We touch him in life's throng and press; 

And we are whole again.^ 

That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural 
law, not in defiance, suppression, or violation of it, we can- 
not doubt. The perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual. 
Jesus enunciated and exemplified the Principle; and, 
obviously, the conditions requisite in psychic healing 
to-day are the same as were necessary in apostolic times. 
We accept the statement of Hudson: "There was no law 
of nature violated or transcended. On the contrary, the 
whole transaction v/as in perfect obedience to the laws of 
nature. He understood the law perfectly, as no one before 
him understood it; and In the plenitude of his power he 
applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished." 
A careful reading of the accounts of his healings, in the? 
light of modern science, shows that he observed, in his 
practice of mental therapeutics, the conditions of environ- 
ment and harmonious influence that are essential to success. 
In the case of Jairus' daughter they are fully set forth. 
He kept the unbelievers away, "put them all out,'^ and 
permitting only the father and mother, with his closest 
friends and followers, Peter, James, and John, in the 
chamber with him, and having thus the most perfect 
obtainable environment, he raised the daughter to life. 

^ Note : — About 1868, the author of Science and Health healed 
Mr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient 
pulmonary consumption. — M. B. Eddy. 



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'^Not in blind caprice of will, 
Not in cunning sleight of skill, 
Not for show of power, was wrought 
Nature's marvel in thy thought." 



In a previous article we have referred to cyclic changes 
that came during the last quarter of preceding centuries. 
Of our remarkable nineteenth century not the least event- 
ful circumstance is the advent of Christian Science. 
That it should be the work of a woman is the natural out- 
come of a period notable for her emancipation from many 
of the thraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past. 
We do not, therefore, regard it as a mere coincidence that 
the first edition of Mrs. Eddy's Science and Health should 
have been published in 1875. Since then she has revised 
it many times, and the ninety-first edition is announced. 
Her discovery was first called, "The Science of Divine 
Metaphysical Healing.'' Afterward she selected the name 
Christian Science. It is based upon what is held to be 
scientific certainty^ namely, — that all causation is of 
Mind, every effect has its origin in desire and thought. 
The theology — if we may use the word — of Christian 
Science is contained in the volume entitled "Science and 
Health with Key to the Scriptures." 

The present Boston congregation was organized 
April 19, 1879, and has now over four thousand members. 
It is regarded as the parent organization, all others being 
branches, though each is entirely independent in the 
management of its own affairs. Truth is the sole recognized 
authority. Of actual members of different congregations 
there are between one hundred thousand and two hundred 



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thousand. One or more organized societies have sprung 
up in New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincin- 
nati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Madison, 
Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every other 
centre of population, besides a large and growing number 
of receivers of the faith among the members of all the 
churches and non-church-going people. In some churches 
a majority of the members are Christian Scientists, and, as 
a rule, are the most intelligent. 

Space does not admit of an elaborate presentation on the 
occasion of the erection of the temple, in Boston, the 
dedication taking place on the 6th of January, of one of 
the most remarkable, helpful, and powerful movements 
of the last quarter of the century. Christian Science 
has brought hope and comfort to many weary souls. It 
makes people better and happier. Welding Christianity 
and Science, hitherto divorced because dogma and truth 
could not unite, was a happy inspiration. 

''And still we love the evil cause, 
And of the just effect complain; 
We tread upon life's broken laws, 
And mourn our seK-inflicted pain." 



[The Outlook, New York, January 19, 1895] 

A Christian Science Church 

A great Christian Science church was dedicated in Bos- 
ton on Sunday, the 6th inst. It is located at Norway and 
Falmouth Streets, and is intended to be a testimonial to 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 57 

the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the 
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fire-proof, and 
cost over two hundred thousand dollars. It is entirely 
paid for, and contributions for its erection came from every 
State in the Union, and from many lands. The auditorium 
is said to seat between fourteen and fifteen hundred, and 
was thronged at the four services on the day of dedication. 
The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was read by Mrs. 
Bemis. It rehearsed the significance of the building, and 
reenunciated the truths which will find emphasis there. 
From the description we judge that it is one of the most 
beautiful buildings in Boston, and, indeed, in all New 
England. Whatever may be thought of the peculiar tenets 
of the Christian Scientists, and whatever difference of 
opinion there may be concerning the organization of such 
a church, there can be no question but that the adherents 
of this church have proved their faith by their works. 



[American Art Journal^ New York, January 26, 1895] 

"Our Prayer in Stone" 

Such is the excellent name given to a new Boston church. 
Few people outside its own circles realize how extensive is 
the belief in Christian Science. There are several sects of 
mental healers, but this new edifice on Back Bay, just off 
Huntington Avenue, not far from the big Mechanics 
Building and the proposed site of the new Music Hall, 
belongs to the followers of Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, 
a lady born of an old New Hampshire family, who, after 



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many vicissitudes, found herself in Lynn, Mass., healed by 
the power of divine Mind, and thereupon devoted herself 
to imparting this faith to her fellow-beings. Coming to 
Boston about 1880, she began teaching, gathered an 
association of students, and organized a church. For 
several years past she has lived in Concord, N. H., near 
her birthplace, owning a beautiful estate called Pleasant 
View; but thousands of believers throughout this country 
have joined The Mother Church in Boston, and have now 
erected this ediJBce at a cost of over two hundred thousand 
dollars, every bill being paid. 

Its appearance is shown in the pictures we are permitted 
to publish. In the belfry is a set of tubular chimes. Inside 
is a basement room, capable of division into seven excellent 
class-rooms, by the use of movable partitions. The main 
auditorium has wide galleries, and will seat over a thousand 
in its exceedingly comfortable pews. Scarcely any wood- 
work is to be found. The floors are all mosaic, the steps 
marble, and the walls stone. It is rather dark, often too 
much so for comfortable reading, as all the windows are of 
colored glass, with pictures symbolic of the tenets of the 
organization. In the ceiling is a beautiful sunburst window. 
Adjoining the chancel is a pastor^s study; but for an 
indefinite time their prime instructor has ordained that the 
only pastor shall be the Bible, with her book, called 
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In the 
tower is a room devoted to her, and called ^'Mother's 
Room," furnished with all conveniences for living, should 
she wish to make it a home by day or night. Therein is 
a portrait of her in stained glass; and an electric light, 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 59 

behind an antique lamp, kept perpetually burning in her 
honor; though she has not yet visited her temple, which 
was dedicated on New Year's Sunday in a somewhat novel 
way. 

There was no special sentence or prayer of consecration, 
but continuous services were held from nine to four o'clock, 
every hour and a half, so long as there were attendants; 
and some people heard these exercises four times repeated. 
The printed program was for some reason not followed, 
certain hymns and psalms being omitted. There was sing- 
ing by a choir and congregation. The Pater Noster was 
repeated in the way peculiar to Christian Scientists, the 
congregation repeating one sentence and the leader re- 
sponding with its parallel interpretation by Mrs. Eddy. 
Antiphonal paragraphs were read from the book of 
Revelation and her work respectively. The sermon, 
prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose, 
and read by a professional elocutionist, not an adherent of 
the order, Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, in a clear emphatic 
style. The solo singer, however, was a Scientist, Miss Elsie 
Lincoln; and on the platform sat Joseph Armstrong, 
formerly of Kansas, and now the business manager of the 
Publishing Society, with the other members of the Christian 
Science Board of Directors — Ira O. Knapp, Edward P. 
Bates, Stephen A. Chase, — gentlemen officially connected 
with the movement. The children of believing families 
collected the money for the Mother's Room, and seats were 
especially set apart for them at the second dedicatory 
service. Before one service was over and the auditors left 
by the rear doors, the front vestibule and street (despite 



60 PULPIT AND PRESS 

the snowstorm) were crowded with others, waiting for 
admission. 

On the next Sunday the new order of service went 
into operation. There was no address of any sort, no 
notices, no explanation of Bible or their textbook. Judge 
Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into 
this work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelli- 
gent tones, the Quarterly Bible Lesson, which happened 
that day to be on Jesus' miracle of loaves and fishes. 
Each paragraph he supplemented first with illustrative 
Scripture parallels, as set down for him, and then by pas- 
sages selected for him from Mrs. Eddy's book. The place 
was again crow^ded, many having remained over a w^eek 
from among the thousands of adherents who had come 
to Boston for this auspicious occasion from all parts of 
the country. The organ, made by Farrand & Votey in 
Detroit, at a cost of eleven thousand dollars, is the gift of 
a wealthy Universalist gentleman, but was not ready for 
the opening. It is to fill the recess behind the spacious 
platform, and is described as containing pneumatic wind- 
chests throughout, and having an ^Eolian attachment. 
It is of three-manual compass, C. C. C. to C. 4, 61 notes; 
and pedal compass, C. C. C. to F. 30. The great organ 
has double open diapason (stopped bass), open diapason, 
dulciana, viola di gamba, doppel flute, hohl flute, octave, 
octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet, — 61 pipes each. 
The swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, 
seoline, stopped diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, 
flageolet, cornet — 3 ranks, 183, — cornopean, oboe, vox 
humana — 61 pipes each. The choir organ, enclosed in 



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separate swell-box, has geigen principal, dolce, concert 
flute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo harmo- 
nique, clarinet, — 61 pipes each. The pedal organ has 
open diapason, bourdon, lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10), 
violoncello-wood, — 30 pipes each. Couplers : swell to 
great; choir to great; swell to choir; swell to great oc- 
taves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great sub- 
octaves; swell octaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal; 
choir to pedal. Mechanical accessories: swell tremulant, 
choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind indicator. Pedal 
movements: three affecting great and pedal stops, three 
affecting swell and pedal stops; great to pedal reversing 
pedal; crescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great 
and choir pedal; balanced swell pedal. 

Beautiful suggestions greet you in every part of this 
unique church, which is practical as well as poetic, and 
justifies the name given by Mrs. Eddy, which stands at 
the head of this sketch. J. H. W. 



[Boston Journal J January 7, 1895] 
Chimes Rang Sweetly 

Much admiration was expressed by all those fortunate 
enough to listen to the first peal of the chimes in the tower 
of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Fal- 
mouth and Norway Streets, dedicated yesterday. The 
sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of people, 
who listened with delight. 

The chimes were made by the United States Tubular 



62 PULPIT AND PRESS 

Bell Company, of Methuen, Mass., and are something 
of a novelty in this country, though for some time well 
and favorably known in the Old Country, especially in 
England. 

They are a substitution of tubes of drawn brass for the 
heavy cast bells of old-fashioned chimes. They have the 
advantage of great economy of space, as well as of cost, a 
chime of fifteen bells occupying a space not more than 
five by eight feet. 

Where the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man 
to ring them, these can be rung from an electric keyboard, 
and even when rung by hand require but little muscular 
power to manipulate them and call forth all the purity 
and sweetness of their tones. The quality of tone is some- 
thing superb, being rich and mellow. The tubes are care- 
fully tuned, so that the harmony is perfect. They have 
all the beauties of a great cathedral chime, with infinitely 
less expense. 

There is practically no limit to the uses to which these 
bells may be put. They can be called into requisition in 
theatres, concert halls, and public buildings, as they range 
in all sizes, from those described down to little sets of 
silver bells that might be placed on a small centre table. 



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[The Republic, Washington, D. C, February 2, 1895] 
[Extract] 

Christian Science 

Mary Baker Eddy the ^'Mother'' of the Idea — She Has an 
Imiviense Following Throughout the United States, and 
A Church Costing $250,000 Was Recently Built in Her 
Honor at Boston 

^^My faith has the strength to nourish trees as well as 
souls,^^ was the remark Rev. Mary Baker Eddy^ the 
"Mother'^ of Christian Science, made recently as she 
pointed to a number of large elms that shade her delight- 
ful country home in Concord, N. H. " I had them brought 
here in warm weather, almost as big as they are now, and 
not one died." This is a remarkable statement, but it is 
made by a remarkable woman, who has originated a new 
phase of religious belief, and who numbers over one hun- 
dred thousand intelligent people among her devoted 
followers. 

The great hold she has upon this army was demon- 
strated in a very tangible and material manner recently, 
when "The First Church of Christ, Scientist," erected at 
a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, was 
dedicated in Boston. This handsome edifice was paid 
for before it was begun, by the voluntary contributions of 
Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet im- 
bedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testi- 
monial to our beloved teacher, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, 



64 PULPIT AND PRESS 

Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, author of 
its textbook, ' Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
tures/ president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical Col- 
lege, and the first pastor of this denomination/^ 

There is usually considerable diflSculty in securing suflS- 
cient funds for the building of a new church, but such was 
not the experience of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. Money 
came freely from all parts of the United States. Men, 
women, and children contributed, some giving a pittance, 
others donating large sums. When the necessary amount 
was raised, the custodian of the funds was compelled to 
refuse further contributions, in order to stop the continued 
inflow of money from enthusiastic Christian Scientists. 

Mrs. Eddy says she discovered Christian Science in 
1866. She studied the Scriptures and the sciences, she 
declares, in a search for the great curative Principle. She 
investigated allopathy, homoeopathy, and electricity, with- 
out finding a clew; and modern philosophy gave her no 
distinct statement of the Science of Mind-healing. After 
careful study she became convinced that the curative 
Principle was the Deity. 



[New York Tribune, February 7, 1895] 
[Extract] 

Boston has just dedicated the first church of the Chris- 
tian Scientists, in commemoration of the Founder of that 
sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, drawing together six 
thousand people to participate in the ceremonies, showing 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 65 

that belief in that curious creed is not confined to its 
original apostles and promulgators, but that it has pene- 
trated what is called the New England mind to an un- 
looked-for extent. In inviting the Eastern churches and 
the Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Father 
should not overlook the Boston sect of Christian Scientists, 
which is rather small and new, to be sure, but is undoubt- 
edly an interesting faith and may have a future before it, 
whatever attitude Rome mav assume toward it. 



[Journal J Kansas City, Mo., January 10, 1895] 

[Extract] 

Growth of a Faith 

Attention is directed to the progress which has been 
made by what is called Christian Science by the dedication 
at Boston of ''The First Church of Christ, Scientist.^' 
It is a most beautiful structure of gray granite, and its 
builders call it their "prayer in stone,'' which suggests 
to recollection the story of the cathedral of Amiens, whose 
architectural construction and arrangement of statuary 
and paintings made it to be called the Bible of that city. 
The Frankish church was reared upon the spot where, in 
pagan times, one bitter winter day, a Roman soldier parted 
his mantle with his sword and gave half of the garment to 
a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and 
stone what was called the divine spirit of giving, whose un- 
belie\dng exemplar afterward became a saint. The Boston 
church similarly expresses the faith of those who believe 



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in what they term the divine art of heaUng, which, to their 
minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christ healed 
the sick. 

The first church organization of this faith was founded 
fifteen years ago with a membership of only twenty-six, 
and since then the number of believers has grown with 
remarkable rapidity, until now there are societies in every 
part of the country. This growth, it is said, proceeds 
more from the graveyards than from conversions from 
other churches, for most of those who embrace the faith 
claim to have been rescued from death miraculously under 
the injunction to "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise 
the dead, cast out demons.'^ They hold with strict fidelity 
to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of the 
Bible as expressed in its poetical and highly figurative 
language. 

Altogether the belief and service are well suited to 
satisfy a taste for the mystical which, along many lines, has 
shown an uncommon development in this country during 
the last decade, and which is largely Oriental in its choice. 
Such a rapid departure from long respected views as is 
marked by the dedication of this church, and others of 
kindred meaning, may reasonably excite wonder as to 
how radical is to be this encroachment upon prevailing 
faiths, and whether some of the pre-Christian ideas of 
the Asiatics are eventually to supplant those in company 
with which our civilization has developed. 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 67 

[Montreal Daily Herald, Saturday, February 2, 1895] 
[Extract] 

Christian Science 
Sketch of Its Origin and Growth — The Montreal Branch 

"If you would found a new faith, go to Boston/' has 
been said by a great American writer. This is no idle 
word, but a fact borne out by circumstances. Boston can 
fairly claim to be the hub of the logical universe, and an 
accurate census of the religious faiths which are to be 
found there to-day would probably show a greater number 
of them than even Max O'RelFs famous enumeration of 
John Bull's creeds. 

Christian Science, or the Principle of divine healing, 
is one of those movements which seek to give expression 
to a higher spirituality. Founded twenty-five years ago, 
it was still practically unknown a decade since, but to-day 
it numbers over a quarter of a million of believers, the 
majority of whom are in the United States, and is rapidly 
growing. In Canada, also, there is a large number of 
members. Toronto and Montreal have strong churches, 
comparatively, while in many towns and villages single 
believers or little knots of them are to be found. 

It was exactly one hundred years from the date of the 
Declaration of Independence, when on July 4, 1876, the 
first Christian Scientist Association was organized by 
seven persons, of whom the foremost was Mrs. Eddy. 
The church was founded in April, 1879, with twenty-six 
members, and a charter was obtained two months later. 



68 PULPIT AND PRESS 

Mrs. Eddy assumed the pastorship of the church during 
its early years, and in 1881 was ordained^ being now known 
as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 

The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded 
by Mrs. Eddy in 1881, and here she taught the principles 
of the faith for nine years. Students came to it in hun- 
dreds from all parts of the world, and many are now pastors 
or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs. 
Eddy felt it necessary for the interests of her religious work 
to retire from active contact with the world. She now 
lives in a beautiful country residence in her native State. 



[The American, Baltimore, IMd., January 14, 1895] 
[Extract] 

Mrs. Eddy's Disciples 

It is not generally known that a Cliristian Science con- 
gregation was organized in this city about a year ago. It 
now holds regular services in the parlor of the residence 
of the pastor, at 1414 Linden Avenue. The dedication in 
Boston last Sunday of the Christian Science church, caUed 
The ^Mother Church, which cost over two hundred thou- 
sand dollars, adds interest to the Baltimore organization. 
There are many other church edifices in the United States 
owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science was 
founded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The Baltimore con- 
gregation was organized at a meeting held at the present 
location on February 27, 1894. 



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Dr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore about 
three years ago to organize this movement. IMiss Cross 
came from Syracuse, N. Y., about eighteen months ago. 
Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary Baker 
Eddy, the Founder of the movement. 

Dr. Hammond says he was converted to Christian Sci- 
ence by being cured by Mrs. Eddy of a physical ailment 
some twelve years ago, after several doctors had pronounced 
his case incurable. He says they use no medicines, but 
rely on Mind for cure, believing that disease comes from 
evil and sick-producing thoughts, and that, if they can so 
fill the mind w^ith good thoughts as to leave no room there 
for the bad, they can work a cure. He distinguishes Chris- 
tian Science from the faith-cure, and added: "This Chris- 
tian Science really is a return to the ideas of primitive 
Christianity. It would take a small book to explain fully 
all about it, but I may say that the fundamental idea is that 
God is Mind, and we interpret the Scriptures wholly from 
the spiritual or metaphysical standpoint. We find in this 
view of the Bible the power fully developed to heal the 
sick. It is not faith-cure, but it is an acknowledgment of 
certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work a cure the 
practitioner must understand these laws aright. The 
patient may gain a better understanding than the Church 
has had in the past. All churches have prayed for the cure 
of disease, but they have not done so in an intelligent man- 
ner, understanding and demonstrating the Christ-healing." 



70 PULPIT AND PRESS 

[The Reporter, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895] 
[Extract] 

Discovered Christian Science 

Remabkable Career of Rev. Mart Baker Eddy, Who Has 
Over One Hundred Thousand Followers 

Rev. Mary Balder Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of 
Cliristian Science, autlior of its textbool^, ^^ Science and 
Health witli Key to tlie Scriptures," president of the Mas- 
sachusetts Metaphysical College, and first pastor of the 
Christian Science denomination, is without doubt one of 
the most remarkable women in America. She has within a 
few years founded a sect that has over one hundred thou- 
sand converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston, 
as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire-proof church 
that cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and was 
paid for by Christian Scientists all over the country. 

Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that 
" all causation was Mind, and every effect a mental phe- 
nomenon." Taking her text from the Bible, she endeav- 
ored in vain to find the great curative Principle — the Deity 
— in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she con- 
cluded that the way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus 
was the power of Truth over all error, sin, sickness, and 
death. Thus originated the divine or spiritual Science of 
Mind-healing, which she termed Christian Science. She 
has a palatial home in Boston and a country-seat in 
Concord, N. H. The Christian Science Church has a 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 71 

membership of four thousand, and eight hundred of the 
members are Bostonians. 



[N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, January 9, 1895] 

The idea that Christian Science has decHned in popu- 
larity is not borne out by the voluntary contribution of a 
quarter of a million doUars for a memorial church for Mrs. 
Eddy, the inventor of this cure. The money comes from 
Christian Science believers exclusively. 



[The Post, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895] 

Do Not Believe She Was Deified 

Christian Scientists of Syracuse Surprised at the News 
About Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Faith 

Christian Scientists in this city, and in fact all over the 
country, have been startled and greatly discomfited over 
the announcements in New York papers that Mrs. Mary 
Baker G. Eddy, the acknowledged Christian Science 
Leader, has been exalted by various dignitaries of the 
faith. . . . 

It is well known that Mrs. Eddy has resigned herself 
completely to the study and foundation of the faith to which 
many thousands throughout the United States are now so 
entirely devoted. By her followers and cobelievers she is 
imquestionably looked upon as having a divine mission to 



72 PULPIT AND PRESS 

fulfil, and as though inspired in her great task by super- 
natural power. 

For the purpose of learning the feeling of Scientists in this 
city toward the reported deification of Mrs. Eddy, a Post 
reporter called upon a few of the leading members of the 
faith yesterday and had a number of very interesting con- 
versations upon the subject. 

Mrs. D. W. Copeland of University Avenue was one of 
the first to be seen. Mrs. Copeland is a very pleasant and 
agreeable lady, ready to converse, and evidently very much 
absorbed in the work to which she has given so much of 
her attention. Mrs. Copeland claims to have been healed 
a number of years ago by Christian Scientists, after she 
had practically been given up by a number of well-known 
physicians. 

"And for the past eleven years/' said Mrs. Copeland, 
"I have not taken any medicine or drugs of any kind, and 
yet have been perfectly well.'' 

In regard to Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. Copeland said that she 
was the Founder of the faith, but that she had never 
claimed, nor did she believe that Mrs. Lathrop had, that 
Mrs. Eddy had any power other than that which came 
from God and through faith in Him and His teachings. 

"The power of Christ has been dormant in mankind for 
ages,'' added the speaker, "and it was Mrs. Eddy's mission 
to revive it. In our labors we take Christ as an example, 
going about doing good and healing the sick. Christ has 
told us to do his work, naming as one great essential that 
we have faith in him. 

" Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine himself, or 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 73 

giving it to others?'^ inquired the speaker. "Then why- 
should we worry ourselves about sickness and disease? 
If we become sick, God will care for us, and will send to 
us those who have faith, who believe in His unlimited and 
divine power. Mrs. Eddy was strictly an ardent follower 
after God. She had faith in Plim, and she cured herself of 
a deathly disease through the mediation of her God. Then 
she secluded herself from the world for three years and 
studied and meditated over His divine Word. She delved 
deep into the Biblical passages, and at the end of the period 
came from her seclusion one of the greatest Biblical schol- 
ars of the age. Her mission was then the mission of a 
Christian, to do good and heal the sick, and this duty she 
faithfully performed. She of herself had no power. But 
God has fulfilled His promises to her and to the world. 
If you have faith, you can move mountains." 

Mrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member 
of the church. When seen yesterday she emphasized her- 
self as being of the same theory as Mrs. Copeland. Mrs. 
Cole has made a careful and searching study in the beliefs 
of Scientists, and is perfectly versed in all their beliefs and 
doctrines. She stated that man of himself has no power, 
but that all comes from God. She placed no credit what- 
ever in the reports from New York that Mrs. Eddy has 
been accredited as having been deified. She referred the 
reporter to the large volume which Mrs. Eddy had herself 
written, and said that no more complete and yet concise 
idea of her belief could be obtained than by a perusal of it. 



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[New York Herald, February 6, 1895] 
Mrs. Eddy Shocked 

[By Telegraph to the Herald] 

Concord, N. H., February 4, 1895. — The article pub- 
lished in the Herald on January 29, regarding a statement 
made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of the Christian Sci- 
ence congregation that meets every Sunday in Hodgson 
Hall, New York, was showTi to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, 
the Christian Science "Discoverer," to-day. 

Mrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the 
interrogatory, which she did in this letter, addressed to the 
editor of the Herald: — 

"A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to an- 
swer for myself, 'Am I the second Christ?' 

" Even the question shocks me. What I am is for God 
to declare in His infinite mercy. As it is, I claim nothing 
more than what I am, the Discoverer and Founder of 
Christian Science, and the blessing it has been to mankind 
which eternity enfolds. 

"I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood. If she said 
aught with intention to be thus understood, it is not what 
I have taught her, and not at all as I have heard her talk. 

"My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion 
and statement of the Christ and the deification of mortals. 

"Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense 
of divine Love and its compound divine ideal. 

"There was, is, and never can be but one God^ one 



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Christ, one Jesus of Nazareth. Whoever in any age ex- 
presses most of the spirit of Truth and Love, the Principle 
of God's idea, has most of the spirit of Christ, of that Mind 
which was in Christ Jesus. 

"If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings, 
and example a greater degree of this spirit than in others, 
they can justly declare it. But to think or speak of me in 
any manner as a Christ, is sacrilegious. Such a statement 
would not only be false, but the absolute antipode of Chris- 
tian Science, and w^oidd savor more of heathenism than of 
my doctrines. 

''Mary Baker Eddy/^ 



[The Globe, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895] 
[Extract] 

Christian Scientists 

Dedication to the Founder op the Order op a Beautiful 
Church at Boston — Many Toronto Scientists Present 

The Christian Scientists of Toronto, to the number of 
thirt}^, took part in the ceremonies at Boston last Sunday 
and for the day or tvv^o following, by which the members 
of that faith all over North America celebrated the dedica- 
tion of the church constructed in the great New England 
capital as a testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of 
Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 

The temple is believed to be the most nearly fire-proof 
church structure on the continent, the only combustible 



76 PULPIT AND PRESS 

material used in its construction being that used in the 
doors and pews. A striking feature of the church is a 
beautiful apartment known as the "Mother's Room/' 
which is approached through a superb archway of Italian 
marble set in the wall. The furnishing of the "Mother's 
Room" is described as "particularly beautiful, and blends 
harmoniously with the pale green and gold decoration of the 
walls. The floor is of mosaic in elegant designs, and two 
alcoves are separated from the apartment by rich hangings 
of deep green plush, which in certain lights has a shimmer 
of silver. The furniture frames are of white mahogany 
in special designs, elaborately carved, and the upholstery 
is in white and gold tapestry. A superb mantel of Mexican 
onyx with gold decoration adorns the south wall, and before 
the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of the 
eider-down duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pic- 
tures and bric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of 
loving friends. One of the two alcoves is a retiring-room 
and the other a lavatory in which the plumbing is all 
heavily plated with gold." 



[Evening Monitory Concord, N. H., February 27, 1895] ^ 

An Elegant Souvenir 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy Memorialized By a Christian 
Science Church 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer of Christian Science, 
has received from the members of The First Church of 
Christ, Scientist, Boston, an invitation formally to accept 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 77 

the magnificent new edifice of worship which the church 
has just erected. 

The invitation itself is one of the most chastely elegant 
memorials ever prepared, and is a scroll of solid gold, 
suitably engraved, and encased in a handsome plush 
casket with white silk linings. Attached to the scroll is a 
golden key of the church structure. 

The inscription reads thus: — 

Dear Mother: — During the year eighteen hundred and 
ninety-four a church edifice was erected at the intersection 
of Falmouth and Norway Streets, in the city of Boston, 
by the loving hands of four thousand members. This 
edifice is built as a testimonial to Truth, as revealed by 
divine Love through you to this age. You are hereby 
most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this 
testimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen 
hundred and ninety-five, at high noon. 

"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass. 

''By Edward P. Bates, 
"Caroline S. Bates. 
"To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, 
"Boston, January 6th, 1895.'' 



( [People and Patriot ^ Concord, N. H., February 27, 1895] 

Magnificent Testimonial 

Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at 
Boston, have forwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of 



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this city, the Founder of Christian Science, a testimonial 
which is probably one of the most magnificent examples 
of the goldsmith's art ever wrought in this country. It is 
in the form of a gold scroll, twenty-six inches long, nine 
inches wide, and an eighth of an inch thick. 

It bears upon its face the following inscription, cut in 
script letters: — 

''Dear Mother: — During the year 1894 a church edi- 
fice was erected at the intersection of Falmouth and Nor- 
way Streets, in the city of Boston, by the loving hands of 
four thousand members. This edifice is built as a testi- 
monial to Truth, as revealed by divine Love through you 
to this age. You are hereby most lovingly invited to visit 
and formally accept this testimonial on the^20th day of 
February, 1895, at high noon. 

" The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass. 

^'By Edward P. Bates, 
"Caroline S. Bates. 
''To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, 
"Boston, January 6, 1895.'' 

Attached by a white ribbon to the scroll is a gold key 
to the church door. 

The testimonial is encased in a white satin-lined box 
of rich green velvet. 

The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J. C. 
Derby's jewelry store. 



CLIPPmGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 79 

[The Union Signal^ Chicago] 
[Extract] 

The New Woman and the New Church 

The dedication, in Boston, of a Cliristian Science temple 
costing over two liundred tliousand dollars, and for which 
the money was all paid in so that no debt had to be taken 
care of on dedication day, is a notable event. While we 
are not, and never have been, devotees of Christian Science, 
it becomes us as students of public questions not to ignore 
a movement which, starting fifteen years ago, has already 
gained to itseK adherents in every part of the civilized 
world, for it is a significant fact that one cannot take up 
a daily paper in town or village — to say nothing of cities — 
without seeing notices of Christian Science meetings, and 
in most instances they are held at "headquarters/^ 

We believe there are two reasons for this remarkable 
development, which has shown a vitality so unexpected. 
The first is that a revolt was inevitable from the crass 
materialism of the cruder science that had taken posses- 
sion of men^s minds, for as a wicked but witty writer has 
said, "If there were no God, we should be obliged to in- 
vent one/^ There is something in the constitution of 
man that requires the religious sentiment as much as his 
lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath of his soul is a 
belief in God. 

But when Christian Science arose, the thought of the 
world's scientific leaders had become materialistically 
^^ lopsided," and this condition can never long continue. 



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There must be a righting-up of the mind as sm^ely as of a 
ship when under stress of storm it is ready to capsize. The 
pendulum that has swung to one extreme will surely find 
the other. The religious sentiment in women is so strong 
that the revolt was headed by them; this was inevitable 
in the nature of the case. It began in the most intellectual 
city of the freest country in the world — that is to say, 
it sought the line of least resistance. Boston is emphati- 
cally the women's paradise, — numerically, socially, in- 
deed every way. Here they have the largest individuality, 
the most recognition, the widest outlook. Mrs. Eddy we 
have never seen; her book has many a time been sent 
us by interested friends, and out of respect to them we 
have fairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic peb- 
bles. That we could not understand it might be rather 
to the credit of the book than otherrv^ise. On this subject 
we have no opinion to pronounce, but simply state the 
fact. 

We do not, therefore, speak of the system it sets forth, 
either to praise or blame, but this much is true : the spirit 
of Christian Science ideas has caused an army of well-mean- 
ing people to believe in God and the power of faith, who 
did not believe in them before. It has made a myriad of 
women more thoughtful and devout; it has brought a 
hopeful spirit into the homes of unnumbered invalids. 
The belief that '' thoughts are things,'' that the invisible 
is the only real world, that we are here to be trained into 
harmony with the laws of God, and that what we are here 
determines where we shall be hereafter — all these ideas 
are Christian. 



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The chimes on the Christian Science temple in Boston 
played "All hail the power of Jesus' name/' on the morn- 
ing of the dedication. We did not attend, but we learn 
that the name of Christ is nowhere spoken with more 
reverence than it was during those services, and that he 
is set forth as the power of God for righteousness and the 
express image of God for love. 



[The New Century, Boston, February, 1895} 

One Point of View — The New Woman 

We all know her — she is simply the woman of the past 
with an added grace — a newer charm. Some of her 
dearest ones call her "selfish" because she thinks so much 
of herself she spends her whole time helping others. She 
represents the composite beauty, sweetness, and nobility 
of all those who scorn self for the sake of love and her 
handmaiden duty — of all those who seek the brightness 
of truth not as the moth to be destroyed thereby, but as 
the lark who soars and sings to the great sun. She is of 
those who have so much to give they want no time to take, 
and their name is legion. She is as full of beautiful possi- 
bilities as a perfect harp, and she realizes that all the har- 
monies of the universe are in herself, while her own soul 
plays upon magic strings the unwritten anthems of love. 
She is the apostle of the true, the beautiful, the good, com- 
missioned to complete all that the twelve have left undone. 
Hers is the mission of missions — the highest of all — to 



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make the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul, 
with the brain for its great white throne. 

When she comes like the south wind into the cold haunts 
of sin and sorrow, her words are smiles and her smiles are 
the sunlight which heals the stricken soul. Her hand is 
tender — but steel tempered with holy resolve, and as 
one whom her love had glorified once said — she is soft 
and gentle, but you could no more turn her from her 
course than winter could stop the coming of spring. She 
has long learned with patience, and to-day she knows 
many things dear to the soul far better than her teachers. 
In olden times the Jews claimed to be the conservators 
of the world's morals — they treated woman as a chattel, 
and said that because she was created after man, she was 
created solely for man. Too many still are Jews who 
never called Abraham "Father," while the Jews them- 
selves have long acknowledged woman as man's proper 
helpmeet. In those days women had few laT\^ul claims 
and no one to urge them. True, there were Miriam and 
Esther, but they sang and sacrificed for their people, not 
for their sex. 

To-day there are ten thousand Esthers, and Miriams 
by the million, who sing best by singing most for their 
own sex. They are demanding the right to help make 
the laws, or at least to help enforce the laws upon 
which depends the welfare of their husbands, their chil- 
dren, and themselves. Why should our selfish self longer 
remain deaf to their cry? The date is no longer B. C. 
Might no longer makes right, and in this fair land at least 
fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel of wrong. Why then 



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should we continue to demand woman's love and woman's 
help while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate 
what we never fulfil as husband and office-holder? In 
our secret heart our better self is shamed and dishonored, 
and appeals from Philip drunk to Philip sober, but has 
not yet the moral strength and courage to prosecute the 
appeal. But the east is rosy, and the sunlight cannot long 
be delayed. Woman must not and will not be disheart- 
ened by a thousand denials or a million of broken pledges. 
With the assurance of faith she prays, with the certainty 
of inspiration she works, and with the patience of genius 
she waits. At last she is becoming "as fair as the morn, 
as bright as the sun, and as terrible as an army with ban- 
ners" to those who march under the black flag of oppres- 
sion and wield the ruthless sword of injustice. 

In olden times it was the Amazons who conquered the 
invincibles, and we must look now to their daughters to 
overcome our own allied armies of evil and to save us from 
ourselves. She must and will succeed, for as David sang 
— ''God shall help her, and that right early," \Yhen we 
try to praise her later works it is as if we would pour 
incense upon the rose. It is the proudest boast of many 
of us that we are "bound to her by bonds dearer than free- 
dom," and that we live in the reflected royalty which 
shines from her brow. We rejoice with her that at last 
we begin to know what John on Patmos meant — "And 
there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed 
with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her 
head a crown of twelve stars." She brought to warring 
men the Prince of Peace, and he, departing, left his scepter 



84 PULPIT AND PRESS 

not in her hand, but in her soul. "The time of times'' 
is near when "the new woman'' shall subdue the whole 
earth mth the weapons of peace. Then shall wrong be 
robbed of her bitterness and ingratitude of her sting, 
revenge shall clasp hands with pity, and love shall dwell 
in the tents of hate; while side by side, equal partners in 
all that is worth living for, shall stand the new man with 
the new woman. 

[Christian Science Journal, January, 1895] 
[Extract] 

The Mother Church 

The Mother Church edifice — The First Church of 
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is erected. The close of the 
year. Anno Domini 1894, witnessed the completion of 
"our prayer in stone," all predictions and prognostications 
to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Of the significance of this achievement we shall not 
undertake to speak in this article. It can be better felt 
than expressed. All who are awake thereto have some 
measure of understanding of what it means. But only 
the future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or un- 
fold it to the comprehension of mankind. It is enough for 
us now to know that aU obstacles to its completion have 
been met and overcome, and that our temple is completed 
as God intended it should be. 

This achievement is the result of long years of untiring, 
imselfish, and zealous effort on the part of our beloved 
teacher and Leader, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, 
the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 85 

nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of 
this temple, and whose devotion and consecration to God 
and humanity during the intervening years have made 
its erection possible. 

Those who now, in part, understand her mission, turn 
their hearts in gratitude to her for her great work, and 
those who do not understand it will, in the fulness of time, 
see and acknowledge it. In the measure in which she has 
unfolded and demonstrated divine Love, and built up in 
human consciousness a better and higher conception of 
God as Life, Truth, and Love, — as the divine Principle 
of all things which really exist, — and in the degree in 
which she has demonstrated the system of healing of Jesus 
and the apostles, surely she, as the one chosen of God to 
this end, is entitled to the gratitude and love of all who 
desire a better and grander humanity, and who believe 
it to be possible to establish the kingdom of heaven upon 
earth in accordance with the prayer and teachings of 
Jesus Christ. 



[Concord Evening Monitor, March 23, 1895] 

Testbioxial axd Gift 

To Rev. Mart B-4lEer Eddy, from The First Chtrch of 
Christ, Scientist, ix Boston 

Rev. Marj^ Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Chris- 
tian Science Board of Directors, Boston, a beautiful and 
unique testimonial of the appreciation of her labors and 
loAong generosity in the Cause of their common faith. It 
was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church of 



86 PULPIT AND PRESS 

the Christian Scientists^ just completed, being of granite, 
about six inches in each dimension, and contains a solid 
gold box, upon the cover of which is this inscription: — 

"To our Beloved Teacher, the Reverend Mary Baker 
Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, from 
her aflfectionate Students, the Christian Science Board of 
Directors.'' 

On the under side of the cover are the facsimile sig- 
natures of the Directors, — Ira O. Knapp, William B. 
Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase, 
with the date, ''1895/' The beautiful souvenir is en- 
cased in an elegant plush box. 

Accompanying the stone testimonial was the following 
address from the Board of Directors: — 

Boston, March 20, 1895. 

To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our Beloved 
Teacher and Leader: — We are happy to announce to you 
the completion of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 
in Boston. 

In behalf of your loving students and all contributors 
wherever they may be, we hereby present this church to 
you as a testimonial of love and gratitude for your labors 
and loving sacrifice, as the Discoverer and Founder of 
Christian Science, and the author of its textbook, ''Sci- 
ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures." 

We therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation 
to become the permanent pastor of this church, in con- 
nection with the Bible and the book alluded to above, 
which you have already ordained as our pastor. And we 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 87 

most cordially invite you to be present and take charge 
of any services that may be held therein. We especially 
desire you to be present on the twenty-fourth day of March, 
eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to accept this offering, 
with our humble benediction. 
Lovingly yours, 
Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong, 

WiLLiAJM B. Johnson, Stephen A. Chase, 
The Christian Science Board of Directors. 

REV. MRS. eddy's REPLY 

Beloved Directors and Brethren: — For your costly offer- 
ing, and kind call to the pastorate of "The First Church 
of Christ, Scientist," in Boston — accept my profound 
thanks. But permit me, respectfully, to decline their ac- 
ceptance, while I fully appreciate your kind intentions. 
If it will comfort you in the least, make me your Pastor 
Emeritus, nominally. Through my book, your textbook, 
I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask too much 
when asking me to accept your grand church edifice. I 
have more of earth now, than I desire, and less of heaven; 
so pardon my refusal of that as a material offering. Tvlore 
effectual than the forum are our states of mind, to bless 
mankind. This wish stops not with my pen — God give 
you grace. As our church's tall tower detains the sun, 
so may luminous lines from your lives linger, a legacy to 
our race. 

Mary Baker Eddy. 

March 25, 1895. 



88 PULPIT AND PRESS 



List of Leading Newspapers Whose Articles 
Are Omitted 

From Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific ocean, the author has received leading news- 
papers with uniformly kind and interesting articles on 
the dedication of The Mother Church. They were, how- 
ever, too voluminous for these pages. To those which are 
copied she can append only a few of the names of other 
prominent newspapers whose articles are reluctantly 
omitted. 

EASTERN STATES 

Advertiser^ Calais, Me. 
Advertiser, Boston, Mass. 
Farmer, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Independent, Rockland, Mass. 
Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me. 
News, New Haven, Conn. 
News, Newport, R. I. 
Post, Boston, Mass. 
Post, Hartford, Conn. 
Republican, Springfield, Mass. 
Sentinel, Eastport, Me. 
Sun, Attleboro, Mass. 

Mn)DLE STATES 

Advertiser, New York City. 
Bulletin, Auburn, N. Y. 
Daily, York, Pa. 
Enquirer, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Evening Reporter, Lebanon, Pa. 
Farmer, Bridgeport, N. Y. 
Herald, Rochester, N. Y. 
Independent, Haxrisburg, Pa. 



CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 89 

Independent, New York City. 

Journal, Lockport, N. Y. 

Knickerbocker, Albany, N. Y. 

News, Buffalo, N. Y. 

News, Newark, N. J. 

Once A Week, New York City. 

Post, Pittsburg, Pa. 

Press, Albany, N. Y. 

Press, New York City. 

Press, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N. Yo 

Sun, New York City. 

Telegram, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Telegram, Troy, N. Y. 

Times, Trenton, N. J. 



SOUTHERN STATES 

Commercial, Louisville, Ky. 
Journal, Atlanta, Ga. 
Post, Washington, D. C. 
Telegram, New Orleans, La. 
Times, New Orleans, La. 
Times-Herald, Dallas, Tex. 



WESTERN STATES 

Bee, Omaha, Neb. 
Bulletin, San Francisco, Cal. 
Chronicle, San Francisco, Cal. 
Elite, Chicago, 111. 
Enquirer, Oakland, Cal. 
Free Press, Detroit, Mich. 
Gazette, Burhngton, Iowa. 
Herald, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Herald, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Journal, Columbus, Ohio. 
Journal, Topeka, Kans. 
Leader, Bloomington, lU. 
Leader, Cleveland, Ohio. 
News, St. Joseph, Mo. 



90 PULPIT AND PRESS 

News-Tribune, Duluth, Minn. 

Pioneer-Press y St. Paul, ISIinn. 

Post-Intelligencer J Seattle, Wash. 

Salt Lake Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Sentinel, Indianapohs, Ind. 

Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Star, Kansas City, Mo. 

Telegram, Portland, Ore. 

Times, Chicago, 111. 

Times, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Tribune, Minneapohs, Minn, 

Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Free Press, London, Can. 



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